This book presents selected papers from the 23rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Madrid, Spain. While the theoretical and empirical papers presented cover diverse areas of economics and finance in different geographic regions, the main focus is on the latest research concerning international trade, public economics, and regional studies. The book also includes studies on the economics of innovation, inequality and tourism.

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Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin is a Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He has also held visiting faculty positions at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) (USA), Jacksonville University (USA), Zagreb University (Croatia), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Prof. Bilgin has published many articles in reputable international journals and is the Associate Editor of the Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He is the founder and current Chairman of the Istanbul Economic Research Association, and the founder and current Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES, Turkey). He has also been active as a consultant to several institutions, as a newspaper columnist, and featured in several television programs.

Hakan Danis is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Istanbul Sehir University (Turkey), Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES), and a Director in the Credit Strategies Group at the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) (USA). He has previously worked at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the USA as a Senior Economist. He is one of the founders and first President of the EBES. He has published articles in many leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Managing Editor of Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He is a frequent guest editor for the journals Emerging Markets Finance & Trade and Singapore Economic Review, and has published several academic books. His current research and teaching interests include monetary policy, nonlinear applied time series, risk management in financial institutions, and macroeconomics. 

Gökhan Karabulut is a Professor at Istanbul University (Turkey). He also holds visiting faculty positions in Economics at the University of New Orleans (USA), and in Psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany (USA). He has published articles in reputable international academic journals, presented his research at international conferences, and published several books. His main research interests are in behavioral economics and macroeconomics.
Giray Gözgor is an Associate Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He has also been a visiting scholar at Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of California (USA). He has published articles in international journals such as the Annals of Tourism, Emerging Markets Review, and World Economy. His research interests are in the effects of globalization and digitalization on financial markets and financial market regulations, and in public policies and the outcomes of financial development.

Inhalt
Part 1. Public Economics.- Cooperation Model of Public Employment Services and Private Stakeholders: Evidence From Poland.- Public Expenditure on Social Protection in the Light of the Europe 2020 Poverty Objective.- Evaluation of Finances Impact to Business Competiveness in EU Countries.- Is it Still Possible to Receive an Adequate Income from Pensions in the Era of Ageing Societies? - The Great Pension Gap Challenge in Europe.- Occupational Pension Scheme in Poland.- Comprehensive Assessment of Financial Safety of the States Taking into Account Social, Economic and Shadow Indicators.- Part 2. Regional Studies.- Evaluation of the Interregional Cooperation Influence on Innovative Development of Russia.- Demography and Flexibility: The Two Vital Issues for the European Union.- Problems in Eurasian Container Supply Chains.- Recent Developments in the Sustainability Field- Energy and Economic Indicators in the European Union in 2015.- Systemic Irregularities in the EU Fund Law:  Context of Public Supervision Over Public Procurement Market.- New Public Managament at Local Self-Government Institutions.- What Does the Housing Price Depend on? Case of Russian Regions.- Toward a European Energy Union: Financial Ratio Analysis of the EU Energy Sector.- Capacity of Industrial Structure: The Case of Eastern and Central Europe.- Part 3. Finance.- How do Russian Construction Companies Use Debt Financing?.- Estimation of 'dark matter' in the External Sector of the United States After the Outbreak of the World Economic Crisis in 2009.- Part 4. Economics of Innovation.- Innovation Theory - Where is it Going?.- Regional Aspects of Digital Economic Development.- Part 5. Risk Management.- What do we Know About Data Breaches? Empirical Evidence From the USA.- Human Risk in Agriculture:  Problems and Perspectives.- Part 6. Inequality.- The Impact of Income Inequality on Economic Growth Through Channels in the European Union  .- Analyzing Opportunities for Eliminating Inequality in Female Digital Entrepreneurship in Spain. Part 7. Tourism.- Tourist Clusters as Instruments of Implementation of Smart Regional Specializations in Tourism on the Example of Poland.- Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Non-financial Reporting in Hotel Enterprises in Croatia.- Determinants of SME Innovativeness in Poland on the Example of the Market of Aesthetic Medicine Tourism.- Challenges and Problems of Sustainable Development of Tourism in Protected Areas: Example of National Parks in Poland .- The Role of State Regulation and Policy in Tourism Development (case of Georgia),- Part 8 International Trade.- Relationship Between Foreign Trade and Tourism: an Empirical Study on Mediterranean Countries .- The Impact of Wage Share on Exports of the European Union Countries.- Research on Factors Affecting the Imported Online Games in China.