Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics 11/1 Series Editors: Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin · Hakan Danis Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin Hakan Danis Ender Demir Ugur Can Editors Eurasian Economic Perspectives Proceedings of the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics 11/1 Serieseditors MehmetHuseyinBilgin,Istanbul,Turkey HakanDanis,SanFrancisco,CA,USA Representing Eurasia Business and Economics Society Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/13544 (cid:129) (cid:129) Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin Hakan Danis (cid:129) Ender Demir Ugur Can Editors Eurasian Economic Perspectives Proceedings of the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference Editors MehmetHuseyinBilgin HakanDanis FacultyofPoliticalSciences MUFGUnionBank IstanbulMedeniyetUniversity SanFrancisco,CA,USA Istanbul,Turkey EnderDemir UgurCan FacultyofTourism EurasiaBusiness&EconomicSociety IstanbulMedeniyetUniversity Fatih,Istanbul,Turkey Istanbul,Turkey The authors of individual papers are responsible for technical, content, and linguistic correctness. ISSN2364-5067 ISSN2364-5075 (electronic) EurasianStudiesinBusinessandEconomics ISBN978-3-030-18564-0 ISBN978-3-030-18565-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18565-7 ©SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2019 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthe materialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped. Theuseofgeneraldescriptivenames,registerednames,trademarks,servicemarks,etc.inthispublication doesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfromtherelevant protectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. The publisher, the authors, and the editorsare safeto assume that the adviceand informationin this bookarebelievedtobetrueandaccurateatthedateofpublication.Neitherthepublishernortheauthorsor theeditorsgiveawarranty,expressorimplied,withrespecttothematerialcontainedhereinorforany errorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade.Thepublisherremainsneutralwithregardtojurisdictional claimsinpublishedmapsandinstitutionalaffiliations. ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG. Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Preface This is Volume 1—Eurasian Economic Perspectives of the 11th issue of the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, which is the official book series of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES, www. ebesweb.org). This issue includes selected papers presented at the 24th EBES Conference—Bangkok, which was held on January 10–12, 2018, in Bangkok, Thailand, jointly organized by the Faculty of Business Administration Kasetsart UniversitywiththesupportoftheIstanbulEconomicResearchAssociation. Distinguished colleagues Jonathan Batten from University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia; Euston Quah from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; NaoyukiYoshino from theAsian DevelopmentBankInstitute,Japan;andPartha Sen from Delhi School of Economics, India, joined the conference as keynote speakers. During the conference, participants had many productive discussions and exchanges that contributed to the success of the conference where 178 papers by 334colleaguesfrom47countrieswerepresented.Inadditiontopublicationoppor- tunities in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review,whichare also published bySpringer), conference participants were given theopportunitytosubmittheirfullpapersforthisissue. Theoretical and empirical papers in the series cover diverse areas of business, economics,andfinancefrommanydifferentcountries,providingavaluableoppor- tunity to researchers, professionals, and students to catch up with the most recent studiesinadiversesetoffieldsacrossmanycountriesandregions. The aim of the EBES conferences is to bring together scientists from business, finance, and economics fields, attract original research papers, and provide them publication opportunities. Each issue of the Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics covers a wide variety of topics from business and economics and provides empirical results from many different countries and regions that are less investigatedintheexistingliterature.Allacceptedpapersfortheissuewentthrough peer-review processand benefited from the comments made during theconference v vi Preface as well. The current issue covers fields such as economic development, finance, tourism,publiceconomic,andregionalstudies. Although the papers in this issue may provide empirical results for a specific countyorregions,webelievethatthereaderswouldhaveanopportunitytocatchup with the most recent studies in a diverse set of fields across many countries and regions and empirical support for the existing literature. In addition, the findings fromthesepaperscouldbevalidforsimilareconomiesorregions. Onbehalfoftheserieseditors,volumeeditors,andEBESofficers,Iwouldliketo thankallpresenters,participants,boardmembers,andthekeynotespeakers,andwe arelookingforwardtoseeingyouattheupcomingEBESconferences. Istanbul,Turkey EnderDemir Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) EBES is a scholarly association for scholars involved in the practice and study of economics, finance, and business worldwide. EBES was founded in 2008 with the purpose of not only promoting academic research in the field of business and economics but also encouraging the intellectual development of scholars. In spite oftheterm“Eurasia,”thescopeshouldbeunderstoodinitsbroadesttermashavinga globalemphasis. EBES aims to bring worldwide researchers and professionals together through organizing conferences and publishing academic journals and increase economics, finance, and business knowledge through academic discussions. Any scholar or professional interested in economics, finance, and business is welcome to attend EBES conferences. Since our first conference in 2009, around 11,157 colleagues from98countrieshavejoinedourconferencesand6379academicpapershavebeen presented.Also,inashortperiodoftime,EBEShasreached2050membersfrom 84countries. Since 2011, EBES has been publishing two academic journals: Eurasian Busi- nessReview(EABR)andEurasianEconomicReview(EAER).Whilebothjournals are indexed in Scopus, EABR and EAER are indexed in Social Science Citation IndexandEmergingSourcesCitationIndex,respectively.Furthermore,EABRisin thefieldsofindustrialorganization,innovation,andmanagementscience,andEAER isinthefieldsofappliedmacroeconomicsandfinance.Bothjournalsarepublished quarterly,andtheyhavebeenpublishedbySpringersince2014. Moreover, since 2014 Springer has started to publish a new conference pro- ceedings series (Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics) which includes selectedpapersfromtheEBESconferences.The10th,11th,12th,13th,14th,15th, 16th,17th,19th,and20th(Vol.2)EBESConferenceProceedingshavealreadybeen accepted for inclusion in the Thomson Reuters’ Conference Proceedings Citation Index.The18thandsubsequentconferenceproceedingsareinprogress. vii viii EurasiaBusinessandEconomicsSociety(EBES) OnbehalfoftheEBESofficers,Isincerelythankyouforyourparticipationand lookforwardtoseeingyouatourfutureconferences.Inordertoimproveourfuture conferences, we welcome your comments and suggestions. Our success is only possiblewithyourvaluablefeedbackandsupport. IhopeyouenjoytheconferenceandBangkok. Withmyverybestwishes, KlausF.Zimmermann,PhD President EBESExecutiveBoard KlausF.Zimmermann,UNU-MERIT,MaastrichtUniversity,TheNetherlands JonathanBatten,UniversityUtaraMalaysia,Malaysia IftekharHasan,FordhamUniversity,U.S.A. EustonQuah,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,Singapore PeterRangazas,IndianaUniversity-PurdueUniversityIndianapolis,U.S.A. JohnRust,GeorgetownUniversity,U.S.A. MarcoVivarelli,UniversitàCattolicadelSacroCuore,Italy EBESAdvisoryBoard HassanAly,DepartmentofEconomics,OhioStateUniversity,U.S.A. AhmetFarukAysan,IstanbulSehirUniversity,Turkey MichaelR.Baye,KelleySchoolofBusiness,IndianaUniversity,U.S.A. Mohamed Hegazy, School of Management, Economics and Communication, The AmericanUniversityinCairo,Egypt ChengHsiao,DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,U.S.A. PhilipY.Huang,ChinaEuropeInternationalBusinessSchool,China NoorAzinaIsmail,UniversityofMalaya,Malaysia IrinaIvashkovskaya,StateUniversity–HigherSchoolofEconomics,Russia HieyeonKeum,UniversityofSeoul,SouthKorea ChristosKollias,DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofThessaly,Greece WilliamD.Lastrapes,TerryCollegeofBusiness,UniversityofGeorgia,U.S.A. BrianLucey,TheUniversityofDublin,Ireland Rita Martenson, School of Business, Economics and Law, Goteborg University, Sweden StevenOngena,UniversityofZurich,Switzerland PanuPoutvaara,FacultyofEconomics,UniversityofMunich,Germany PeterSzilagyi,CentralEuropeanUniversity,Hungary AmineTarazi,UniversityofLimoges,France RussVince,UniversityofBath,UnitedKingdom Wing-KeungWong,DepartmentofFinance,AsiaUniversity,Taiwan NaoyukiYoshino,FacultyofEconomics,KeioUniversity,Japan EurasiaBusinessandEconomicsSociety(EBES) ix OrganizingCommittee KlausF.Zimmermann,PhD,MaastrichtUniversity,TheNetherlands MehmetHuseyinBilgin,PhD,IstanbulMedeniyetUniversity,Turkey HakanDanis,PhD,UnionBank,U.S.A. AlinaKlonowska,PhD,CracowUniversityofEconomics,Poland JonathanTan,PhD,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,Singapore SofiaVale,PhD,ISCTEBusinessSchool,Portugal EnderDemir,PhD,IstanbulMedeniyetUniversity,Turkey OrhunGuldiken,PhD,UniversityofArkansas,U.S.A. UgurCan,EBES,Turkey Reviewers SagiAkron,PhD,UniversityofHaifa,Israel AhmetFarukAysan,PhD,CentralBankoftheRepublicofTurkey,Turkey MehmetHuseyinBilgin,PhD,IstanbulMedeniyetUniversity,Turkey HakanDanis,PhD,UnionBank,U.S.A. EnderDemir,PhD,IstanbulMedeniyetUniversity,Turkey GirayGozgor,PhD,IstanbulMedeniyetUniversity,Turkey OrhunGuldiken,UniversityofArkansas,U.S.A. PeterHarris,PhD,NewYorkInstituteofTechnology,U.S.A. MohamedHegazy,TheAmericanUniversityinCairo,Egypt GokhanKarabulut,PhD,IstanbulUniversity,Turkey ChristosKollias,UniversityofThessaly,Greece DavorLabaš,PhD,UniversityofZagreb,Croatia ChiKeungMarcoLau,PhD,UniversityofNorthumbria,UnitedKingdom GregoryLee,PhD,UniversityoftheWitwatersrand,SouthAfrica NidžaraOsmanagić-Bedenik,PhD,UniversityofZagreb,Croatia EustonQuah,PhD,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,Singapore PeterRangazas,PhD,IndianaUniversity-PurdueUniversityIndianapolis,U.S.A. DoojinRyu,PhD,Chung-AngUniversity,SouthKorea SofiaVale,PhD,ISCTEBusinessSchool,Portugal ManuelaTvaronavičienė,PhD,VilniusGediminasTechnicalUniversity,Lithuania