We have successfully organized our fifty-second conference on July 3-5, 2025. The conference was organized with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association jointly organized with Gulf Financial Center and College of Business Administration, Gulf University for Science & Technology, Kuwait in Collaboration with the Bahcesehir University in hybrid mode with both online and in-person presentation at the Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Türkiye.

We are honored to have received top-tier papers from distinguished scholars from all over the world. We regret that we were unable to accept more papers. In the conference, 215 papers by 471 colleagues from 59 countries were presented. We, EBES, would like to thank all of the conference participants and invited speakers for their contribution to the conference.