492 About the Contributors Hasan Dinçer is an Associate Professor of finance at Istanbul Medipol Univer- sity, 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 Bank- ing Sector”. He has work experience in finance sector as portfolio specialist and his major academic studies focusing on financial instruments, performance evaluation, and economics. He is the executive editor of the International Journal of Finance and Banking Studies (IJFBS) and the founder member of the Society for the Study of Business and Finance (SSBF). Serhat Yüksel is an Associate Professor of finance in İstanbul Medipol Univer- sity. Before this position, he worked as a senior internal auditor for seven years in Finansbank, Istanbul-Turkey and 1 year in Konya Food and Agriculture University as an assistant professor. Dr. Yüksel has a BS in Business Administration (in English) from Yeditepe University (2006) with full scholarship. He got his master’s degree from the economics in Boğaziçi University (2008). He also has a PhD in Banking from Marmara University (2015). His research interests lie in banking, finance and financial crisis. He has more than 130 publications (books, book chapters, scientific articles, etc.). *** Zafer Adiguzel is an Assistant Professor in 2006, Kocaeli University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. In 2010 he graduated from Cardiff Metropolitan University with an MBA in Finance. In 2016 he graduated from Gebze Technical University, Department of Management and Organization. Presently, he continues his academic career as a faculty member at Istanbul Medipol University, Medipol business school. About the Contributors Gökhan Aydın received his Ph.D. in Management Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2009. He worked for 12 years in marketing, sales and retail management departments in leading companies in Turkey. He is currently employed as an Assoc. Professor at Istanbul Medipol University. He is lecturing on various marketing classes in graduate and undergraduate programmes and his areas of inter- est include brand equity & management and digital marketing (mobile, SNS, etc.). Serhat Burmaoglu is a Professor of Quantitative Decision Making. His research interest is investigating the relationship between economic growth, productivity, competitiveness, innovation, and knowledge economy in macro-economic level by using multivariate statistical analysis and data mining applications for extracting usable patterns to direct technology policy. He performs bibliometric analysis and patent analysis on emerging technology subjects to prepare scenario-based foresight studies. He published many book chapters and articles in different national and international journals. Işıl Çekçi is a specialist in Health Management. She continues her research in the fields of innovation, health systems and medical documentation. She is also in preparation for her doctoral education. Amit Chatterjee is presently an Assistant Professor in Economics at MIT- WPU University, Pune. He is a registered PhD research scholar at the Department of Economics, The University of Burdwan, India. His areas of research lie in rural economy, information and technology, education, etc. Ramesh Chandra Das is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. Previously he was Associate Professor of Economics at Katwa College, India. He has obtained Masters, M. Phil and Ph. D Degree in Economics from the University of Calcutta. He has twenty years of teaching and research experience in different fields of economics including theoreti- cal and empirical economics, financial economics, environmental economics and political economics. Dr. Das has contributed several research papers to national and international journals and completed three MRPs sponsored by UGC, India. He has written textbooks on Microeconomics and Macroeconomics (coauthor) for different fields of readers and academician. He is the editor-in-chief in Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management, Associate Editor of International Journal of Research on Social and Natural Sciences. He has edited a number of handbooks on globalization, investment and growth, economic and political convergence, infrastructure, microfinance, military expenditure, terrorism, etc. and worked as a guest editor of IJSEM’s Special Issue (2 parts) published by IGI Global, USA. 493 About the Contributors Ihsan Eken was born in 1986 in Istanbul. He studied Visual Communication Design at Istanbul Commerce University. Later on, he received his master’s degree in Advertising and Brand Management at Bahcesehir University. He received his doctorate degree with his thesis on “Accessible Communication for Everyone, Mobile Accessibility of Visually Impaired Users: Analysis of Mobile Applications With Usability Approach” in Istanbul Commerce University Media and Communication Program. He is currently working as an assistant professor at Istanbul Medipol Uni- versity Faculty of Communication. He is the Media and Visual Arts Program Vice Head of Department. He has won numerous awards in national and international festivals. Finally, he has national and international scientific publications Serkan Eti is a mathematics graduate at Yildiz Technical University. He is a graduate of Quantitive Methods at Marmara University. He has his doctorate in Quantitive Methods. At the same time, he has been a lecturer at Medipol University since 2017. Başak Gezmen was born in 1978 in Izmir. She received her master’s degree in Journalism at Marmara University. She received her doctorate degree with her thesis on “Technological developments in Journalism in Turkey” in Marmara University Journalism Program. She is working as an assistant professor at Istanbul Medipol University Communication Faculty. She has published in national and international scientific publications. Yurdagül Meral Chair is in the International Management and Finance Dept. Istanbul Medipol University School of Business and Management Science ymeral@ medipol.edu.tr www.medipol.edu.tr +90 216 681 753 *CDCS–certificate of docu- mentary credit specialist http://cdcs.ifslearning.ac.uk/ holder. *PhD in Business Management and Organization and *MBA from Istanbul University. 30 years (1986- 2016) of ‘International Trade’ finance experience (including two years in Frankfurt) in banking. After having her associate Degree in Business Management, from Boğaziçi University, started to work in international trade finance departments of Interbank (has completed one year ‘Management Trainee’ program), Koç-American Bank (formerly American Express Bank) including Frankfurt Branch and Tekstil Bank and Şekerbank respectively. She taught International Trade Rules (ICC) and Practise in Banks and Bankers Association. 494 About the Contributors Eray Ekin Sezgin was born in Elazığ in 1989. She completed her primary, secondary and high school education there. In 2012, he graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Depart- ment of Business Administration. In 2014, he completed his master’s degree in Firat University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Business Administration. After completing his master’s degree, he started his doctorate education in 2014 at Fırat University. In 2018, he completed his PhD at Fırat University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Health Management. His academic interests include Health Management and Management and Organization. He is working as an As- sistant Professor in Health Management at Munzur University. Orhan Torul is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University, where he has been a faculty member since 2013. He graduated in 2013 with a Ph.D. degree in Economics from University of Maryland, College Park; and he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Middle East Technical University and Boğaziçi University, respectively. Dr. Torul worked as a visiting researcher at the Istanbul School of Central Banking in 2015 and University of Oslo in 2017. Dr. Torul’s research interests lie in the area of macroeconomics, political economy, distributional economics, public economics, computational economics, and applied econometrics. 495.