EBES Newsletter

Issue: 10, June 2016

Dear EBES Members,
Thank you for your interest and support in our organization. EBES now has over 1569 members from 82
countries.
International Collaborations
EBES has recently signed international collaborations with the following universities: Universitas Sebelas Maret,
Indonesia; Goce Delchev University - Stip, Macedonia; and RISEBA University, Latvia
19TH EBES CONFERENCE - ISTANBUL

FORUM

We have successfully organized our nineteenth conference in Istanbul, Turkey. 19th EBES Conference - Istanbul
was held on May 26-28, 2016 at the Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey with the support of the
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and Istanbul Economic Research Association. In the conference, 184 papers
by 320 colleagues from 42 countries were presented. We, EBES, would like to thank all of our conference
participants and our sponsors for their support during the conference.

Euro-Asia Forum in Politics, Economics and Business - 2016 (July 21-22, 2016)
Euro-Asia Forum in Politics, Economics and Business - 2016 will take place on July 21st and 22nd,
2016 at the Faculty of Economics - University of Belgrade (FoE) in Belgrade, Serbia with the support of
Eurasia Business and Economics Society and the Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of Russian
Academy of Sciences. In the forum, 49 papers will be presented and 83 colleagues from 24 countries
will attend the forum.
EBES Fellows
In 2015, EBES Executive Board decided to honor academicians once a year for their lifetime
contributions to their fields. The EBES Fellows Award is given to acknowledge a lifetime of
contributions to the corresponding academic field. The first EBES Fellows Award was given to
Prof. M. Hashem Pesaran in the 19th EBES Conference - Istanbul which was held on May 2628, 2016.

EBES Journals
We are glad to announce Eurasian Business Review and
Eurasian Economics Review issues 6 No: 2 has been
published. Both journals are currently indexed in the Cabell's
Directory, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, RePEc, EBSCO
Business Source Complete, ProQuest ABI/Inform, IBSS:
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, and
EconLit. Both journals are also included in the Thomson
Reuterss new index called Emerging Sources Citation Index
(ESCI).
20th EBES Conference - Vienna
September 28-30, 2016
Vienna, Austria
Hosted by
IFM - Real Estate and Facility Management at TU Wien
20th EBES Conference - Vienna will take place on September 28th, 29th and 30th, 2016 at the IFM - Real Estate and Facility
Management at TU Wien in Vienna, Austria with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association. Abstract submission for
the 20th EBES Conference is now open to submit an abstract please visit http://ebesweb.org/Conferences/20th-EBES-ConferenceVienna.aspx the deadline for abstract submission is June 30, 2016. The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each
abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

INVITED SPEAKERS: We are pleased to announce that distinguished colleagues John Rust and Alexander Redlein will join
the conference as keynote speakers:
John Rust is professor of economics at the Georgetown University. Before joining Georgetown University, he taught at the
University of Wisconsin, Yale University and University of Maryland. He has published many papers in the most of the top
economic journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economic Studies. He
has also served as the associate editor at top journals such as Econometrica and Journal of Econometrics, and as the CoEditor at Journal of Applied Econometrics. Professor Rust is the best known as one of the founding fathers of the structural
estimation of dynamic discrete choice models and the developer of the nested fixed point maximum likelihood estimator
which is widely used in structural econometrics. He published papers on broad range of topics such as social security,
retirement, disability insurance, nuclear power industry, real estate economics, rental car industry, transportation research,
auction markets, computational economics, and dynamic games. He holds a PhD in economics from MIT.
Alexander Redlein is professor of Real Estate and Facility Management at the Vienna University of Technology, president of
REUG and past president of IFMA Austria. He is also executive board member of EuroFM. After his interdisciplinary studies at
the Vienna University of Technology and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration he is now
engaged in research, education and consultancy in the area of FM. He is also the head of the Institute for Real Estate and
Facility Management (IFM) and MBA for FM at the Vienna University of Technology. Beside his research activities, he is
responsible for technology transfer between the university and CEE companies. In numerous projects he acted as a strategic
advisor, set up FM concepts for international companies and municipalities. He optimized their FM processes, ICT and
workplace management. He conducted international studies about the status quo of FM in CEE and about the value added
by FM/RE. He is a member of the workplace evolutionary network. His workplace research concentrates on the influence of
workplace on the productivity and well-being of the employees.

Upcoming EBES Conferences

21st EBES Conference - Budapest, Jan 2017
26th EBES Conference - Prague, Oct 2018
22nd EBES Conference - Istanbul, May 2017
27th EBES Conference - Amsterdam, Jan 2019
23rd EBES Conference - Madrid, Oct 2017
28th EBES Conference - Istanbul, May 2019
24th EBES Conference - Bangkok, Jan 2018
29th EBES Conference - St. Petersburg, Oct 2019
25th EBES Conference - Istanbul, May 2018
30th EBES Conference - Rome, Jan 2020
EBES
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