This volume discusses the impact of Financial Economics, Growth Dynamics, and the Finance & Banking sector in the economies of countries. The contributors analyse and discuss the effects of the recent financial crises on the economic growth and performance in various countries. The volume covers aspects like foreign borrowing, impact on productivity and debt crises that are strongly affected by the financial volatility of recent years and includes examples from Europe and Asia.
In addition, the authors give particular attention to the private sector of Finance and Banking, which is deeply interwoven with the financial performance of a country¿s economy. Examples such as bank profitability and troubled loans are covered and the volume also discusses the economic impact of banks such as the Ottoman Bank in a national economy. The book also explores the importance of financial stability, intellectual capital and bank performance for a stable economic environment.

Financial Economics and Growth Dynamics:
 Regional or Local Damage? Contagion Effects of Greek Debt Crisis Revisited.- How Did India Feel the Tremors of Recent Financial Crises?- The Extreme Value Forecasting in Dynamics Situations for Reducing of Economic Crisis: Cases from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.- External Borrowing Issue in Ottoman Empire (1854 - 1876 Term).- The Linkage Between Financial Development, Technology and Economic Growth.- Defense Expenditures and Economic Growth Relationship: A Panel Data Approach for NATO.- Grouping OECD Countries Based on Energy-Related Variables Using K-Means and Fuzzy Clustering.- The Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in the EU.- The Role of Religion on Tax Revenue.- Assessing the Twin and Triple Deficit Hypotheses in Developing Economies - A Panel Causality Analysis.- Stability Analysis of Some Dynamic Economic Systems Modeled by State Dependent Delay Differential Equations.-Finance and Banking: Troubled CreditsSelling of State Banks to Asset Management Companies in Turkey.- Economic Contributions of the Ottoman Bank in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.- Bankruptcy - An Examination of Different Approaches.- Behavioral Finance Models, Anomalies and Factors Affecting Investor Psychology.- Global Macroeconomic Determinants of the Domestic Commodity Derivatives.- Evaluation of Elderly Financial Stability: Evidence from European Countries.- An Overview of Measuring and Reporting Intellectual Capital.- The Financial Analysis of the Ottoman Cash Waqfs.- Performances of Emerging Stock Exchanges During the Fed Tapering Announcements.- Determining the Priorities of CAMELS Dimensions Based on Bank Performance.- What Are Relations Between the Domestic Macroeconomic Variables and the Convertible Exchange Rates?

Hasan Dinçer
is an Associate Professor of Finance at Istanbul Medipol University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. He has worked in the finance sector as a portfolio specialist and his major academic studies focuses 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).

Ümit Hac¿ölu
is an Associate Professor of Finance at Istanbul Medipol University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Hacioglu has BAs in Business and International Business from Beykent University. He received his MBA from Beykent University and his PhD in Finance and Banking from Kadir Has University. He has published extensively in major academic journal focusing on financial markets, behavioral finance, performance evaluation, and economics of markets. He edits and serves on several journals related to his core research areas-behavioral finance and financial decision making.

Serhat Yüksel
is Assistant Professor of Finance in ¿stanbul Medipol University. 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.