About the Contributors

459 About the Contributors Hasan Dinçer is an assistant professor of finance at Beykent University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Dinçer has BAs in Financial Markets and Investment Management at Marmara University. He received PhD in Finance and Banking with his thesis entitled “The Effect of Changes on the Competitive Strategies of New Service Development in the Banking Sector.” He has work experience in the finance sector as portfolio specialist, and his major academic studies focus on financial instruments, performance evaluation, and economics. He is the executive editor of International Journal of Finance and Banking Studies (IJFBS) and a founding member of the Society for the Study of Business and Finance (SSBF). Ümit Hacıoğlu is an assistant professor of Finance at Beykent University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Hacıoğlu has BAs in Business Administration and Inter- national Relations (2002). He received PhD in Finance and Banking with his thesis entitled “Effects of Conflict on Equity Performance.” Finance and banking, strategic management, and international political economy are the main pillars of his interdisciplinary studies. He is the executive editor of International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (IJRBS) and a founding member of the Society for the Study of Business and Finance (SSBF). * * * Ulas Akkucuk is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods at Bogazici University Depart- ment of Management, Istanbul-Turkey. Dr. Akkucuk has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University (1997), an MBA from Bogazici University (2000), and a PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from Rutgers University (2004). His research interests lie in the methodological development of multivariate techniques such as Clustering and Multidimensional Scaling and novel applications into fields including global competitiveness, CRM, and technology management. He has taught Statistics, CRM & Data Mining, and Global Marketing Research courses, among others, at both graduate and undergraduate levels. He is in the editorial board of International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (IJRBS) and has been an ad hoc reviewer for journals such as Journal of Multivariate Analysis and Bogazici Journal. He is a member of the Classification Society and Turkish Quality Foundation (KALDER). About the Contributors Kemale Aslanova is a lecturer of Justice Program at Beykent University, Vocational School of Higher Education, in Istanbul, Turkey. She is also a PhD student in Private Law at Marmara University (Istanbul, Turkey). She received LL.M. in Private Law from Istanbul Kultur University, in 2009. Aslanova has BAs in Law at Istanbul University, in 2007. She is a specialist in the field of Obligation Law and Civil Law and has published works in these fields. Benjamin Chijioke Asogwa is a Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. Dr. Asogwa has B.Agric in Agricultural Economics and Extension (First Class Hons) and M.Sc in Agricultural Econom- ics. He obtained his PhD degree in Agricultural Economics. He is the author of several articles published in reputed international journals and international conference proceedings. His special research interest include: production economics, agricultural marketing, farm management, agribusiness, agricultural policy, and development economics. He is currently the College Examination Officer, College of Agri- cultural Economics and Extension, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. Peter Iornum Ater holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degree in Agricultural Economics. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. Dr. Ater received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Agricultural Economics from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and Doctoral degree in Agricultural Economics from Univer- sity of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. His research interests are in the areas of production economics, project monitoring and evaluation, farm management and agribusiness. Dr. Ater’s primary responsibility is teaching and research. He has therefore taught undergraduate and postgraduate students and carried out several researches, an activity he enjoys very much. Dr. Ater has taught Production Economics and other related subjects in some other disciplines. Dr. Ater has published many research papers and books in both local and international research outlets. He has authored several articles published in reputed local and international journals and conference proceedings. He has also consulted for a number of local and international organizations, UNDP inclusive. Dr Ater was the Director of Project Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the Benue State Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (BNARDA) for several years. Currently, he is the Head of Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. He loves listening to Christian music, reading current affairs, watching football, etc. He is happily married with children. Amanda Blanco, M.S., is a recent graduate of the Personal and Financial Planning graduate cer- tificate program in the Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, within the Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida. Her Masters thesis focused on “Racial Differences in Appropriate Mortgage Type Choice.” Blanco presented research on cultural differences in risk tolerance measurement at an international conference. She has received several awards including the 2010 American Council on Consumer Interests’ Young Professional conference award. Blanco has served in many leadership positions including student department representative for the Graduate Student Council at the University of Florida and Volunteer Coordinator for Gator Credit Spending and Help, or Gator C.A.S.H., a peer-to-peer financial mentoring program. 460 About the Contributors Nursel Bolat graduated from Radio-Television and Cinema Department of Kocaeli University. She completed her MA at Kocaeli University Social Sciences Institute. She worked as an assistant director at STV channel and worked as a lecturer at Kocaeli University. She has been working as a lecturer at Istanbul Arel University since 2010. She published her book Medyada Milliyetçilik ve Şiddet “Medyada Milliyetçilik ve Ötekinin Yaratılması: Mc Carthy Döneminde Amerikan Milliyetçiliğinin Hollywood’a Yansıması ve Türkiye’yi Etkileme Süreci.” Her article, “Visual Discourse of the Clove: An Analysis on the Ottoman Tile Decoration Art,” appeared in International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science, and she has presented her works of “Gelişim Süreci İçinde: Televizyonun Çocuklar Üzerindeki Etkileri,” “Mitoloji ve Sinema: Türk Sinemasında Kadın Oyuncu Rol Maskeleri,” “Mizah ve İkna: Televizyon Reklamlarında İkna Aracı Olarak Mizah” both in national and international workshops. Charles Buonba is an MPhil Economics student at the Department of Economics, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. His areas of specialization are health economics and development economics. Charles is currently writing his MPhil thesis in the area of health economics. Charles was a teaching assistant at the Department in 2011. He is expected to complete his Masters programme in June 2013. İsmail Erkan Çelik is an assistant professor of Finance at Beykent University. He received PhD in Finance and Banking with his thesis entitled “The Role of Investment Banks in Development.” He is the editor of International Journal of Finance and Banking Studies (IJFBS) and International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science. Dilaysu Çınar is lecturer at Beykent University, teaching international marketing, total quality management, and introduction to business at Vocational Studies. She has an MBA degree and completed her thesis entitled “Technical Analysis Methods for Stock Market: An Application on ISE.” Zeynep Copur, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ankara, Turkey. Her BS is in Family and Consumer Sciences, and she received PhD in Family and Consumer Sciences with her thesis entitled “The Study of the Effect of Family Values on the Financial Practices.” Her research and teaching specialties include family resource management, family economics, consumer economics, family financial management, family relations, and family issues. Copur serves on the editorial boards for the Hacettepe University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Journal of Family Issues. As a visiting scholar at the University of Florida, she had been actively working on several research projects with Dr. Michael S. Gutter, includes a co-authored publication on the financial management practices of college students and relationship between financial education, financial socialization and financial behaviors. Ramesh Chandra Das has done Masters degree in Economics at Calcutta University. He has obtained the M. Phil degree from the same university. He has also obtained Ph.D award from the University of Calcutta on the aspects of allocation of commercial bank credit in Indian states. He is presently teaching economics at Katwa College, West Bengal, India, for about fourteen

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