Mustafa Özer (Prof. Dr.) is an economist and teaches at the Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey. Mustafa Özer received his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Anadolu University and an MA from the Department of Economics at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. Mustafa Özer’s areas of research are applied econometrics (especially in the fields of tourism economics, financial markets, Turkish Economy and open macro economy), financial crises, business cycles, as well as civil society and publishes articles in international journals especially subjects of financial market interactions, current account deficit and its effect on macro economy and foreign trade, growth and tourism. He teaches the Ph.D. econometrics courses at Social Sciences Institute of Anadolu University and Belgrade Banking Academy, Belgrade, Serbia. Mustafa Özer also teaches Central Banks at different countries. Özer led the both national and international projects regarding the role of civil society in Turkey, especially measuring the value added and employment contributions of civil society. Özer is also member of the scientific committee of international conferences such as MIBES, ICOBAS, ASECU, IJOPEC, EconAnadolu, Europe and Asia: Economic Integration Prospects and EUREFE. He is also editiorial board member of the international scientific journals such as Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy, Journal of Risk Management, the Journal of International Interdisciplinary Business-Economics Advancement, International Econometric Review, and, Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice and some journals in Turkey. Özer also contributes regularly Singapore Economic Review as reviewer and Sage Open as an article editor and reviewer. His recent publications indexed in web of science core collection journals (SSCI and ESCI): Malovic, Marko and Mustafa Özer & Aleksandar Zdravkovic (2018): Misunderstanding of FDI in the Western Balkans: Cart before the Horse and Wheels without Suspension, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506285. Gül, H., M. Özer (2018) Frequency domain causality analysis of tourism and economic activity in Turkey. European Journal of Tourism Research, 19, pp. 86-97. Özer, Mustafa and Karagöl, Veysel (2018), relative effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policies on growth in Turkey: an ARDL bounds test approach, Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy, 13(3), 3914-409. Özer, Mustafa; Žugić, Jovana and Sonja Tomaš-Miskin (2018), The Relationship between Current Account Deficits and Growth in Montenegro: ARDL Bounds Testing Approach, Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, 3, pp. 5-24.