We have successfully organized the ninth EBES Conference in Rome, Italy. 9th EBES Conference – Rome was held on January 11-13, 2013 in Rome, Italy at the Faculty of Economics of Sapienza University of Rome with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association.

In the conference, 303 papers by 516 colleagues from 62 countries were presented. We, EBES, would like to thank all of the conference participants and the Faculty of Economics of Sapienza University of Rome and the Istanbul Economic Research Association for their support during the conference.