ACCOUNTING/AUDIT -- Insights from Lobbying Research on the Accounting Standard-Setting Process through Comment Letter Submissions -- The Bulgarian Life Insurance Sector - Review and Analysis of Investment -- Measures to Assess the Payment Behavior of The Portuguese Subnational Governments -- BANKING -- Interactions between Effectiveness and Consolidation of Commercial Banks In the Polish Banking Sector -- An Empirical Study of Blockchain Technology, Innovation, Service Quality and Firm Performance In the Banking Industry -- New Solutions in the European Financial Market and their Impact on the Polish Market -- ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION -- Implementation Of Productivity Apps To Increase Financial Inclusion In Peer-To-Peer Lending Platform -- Measuring The Importance Of Churn Predictors In Romanian Telecommunication Industry -- Peer-To-Peer Lending Development In Latvia, Risks And Opportunities -- Health Spending And Medical Innovation: A Theoretical Analysis -- EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON EMERGING ECONOMIES -- Asymmetric Impacts Of The Geopolitical Risk On The Oil Price Fluctuations -- Influence Of Selected Internal Factors On The Outputs Of The Financial-Sector Companies Traded On The Warsaw Stock Exchange -- The Influences Of Birth And The Child-Reasing On Household Finances - An Analysis Of Lost Income -- Debt Financing And Financial Performance: Empirical Evidence Of Indian SMES Listed In BSE-SME Platform -- INTERNATIONAL TRADE -- Trade of the EU and china with South America after the 2008 financial crisis -- Panel estimation of high technology export determinants: evidence from fast growing countries labor economics -- Non-standard employment and wages across sectors in Croatia -- Role of personality traits in work-life balance and life satisfaction -- Factors for the future of work and their impact on the European economy and labor market -- PUBLIC ECONOMICS -- Current developments on the economics of happiness: evidence from turkey -- Circular economy - new opportunities for growth -- Comparative portfolio analysis of selected sovereign wealth funds and case of Turkey -- Environmental taxation in Portugal: a contribution to sustainability -- Globally emergent behavioral patterns, as a result of local interactions in strongly interrelated individuals -- REGIONAL STUDIES -- Problematic issues of youth unemployment in central and Eastern European countries -- Insular regions policy in Greece -- Informatization construction and urban total factor productivity: empirical analysis based on China's smart city pilot policy.

This book gathers selected papers from the 29th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal. While the theoretical and empirical papers presented cover diverse areas of economics and finance in various geographic regions, the main focus is on the latest research concerning accounting/audits, banking, the economics of innovation, and empirical studies on emerging economies and international trade. Studies on labor economics and public economics, as well as regional studies, round out the coverage.