Selected Publications
- On the global determinants of visiting home (with Rosmy Jean Louis, Syed Basher, and Mahmud Saber), forthcoming in International Journal of Tourism Research (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- The Impacts of Immigrants and Institutions on Bilateral Tourism Flows (with Hatice O. Balli, Rosmy Jean Louis) Tourism Management 2016, 52, 221-229. (Ranked A* according to ABDC)
- Channels of risk-sharing at a micro level: savings, investments and the risk aversion heterogeneity (with Eleonora Pierucci and Filippo Pericoli), International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2016, 21(1): 90-104.
- An Analysis of Returns and Volatility Spillovers and their Determinants in Emerging Asian and Middle Eastern Countries (with Syed Basher, Hassan Hajhoj, Hassan Ghassan) International Review of Economics and Finance (Ranked A according to ABDC), 2015, Vol 39: 311-325.
- Risk Sharing Across Countries: The importance of Tourism Activity (with Rosmy Jean Louis and Hatice Ozer Balli) forthcoming in Tourism Analysis (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- A Possible Best Currency Basket Selection from the Perspective of Real Effective Exchange Rate (with Aihua Wang and Xiumin Li) Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4):635-650.
- The Transmission of Market Shocks and Bilateral Linkages: Evidence from Emerging Economies (with Rosmy Jean Louis and Vo Kiet) International Review of Financial Analysis, 2015, 42(1):349-357. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Would Australia-New Zealand be a viable currency union? Evidence from interstate risk sharing performances (with Faisal Rana), forthcoming in Contemporary Economic Policy (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Spillover Effects on the Sectoral Returns for Australian and New Zealand Equity Markets (with Hatice Ozer Balli and Ronglan Hong) forthcoming in Journal of Economics and Finance.
- International Arrivals Forecasting for Australian Airports and The Impact of Tourism Marketing Expenditure (with Kan Tsui) forthcoming in Tourism Economics (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Determinants of Risk-Sharing through Remittances (with Faisal Rana). Journal of Banking Finance, 2015, 55, 107-116. (Ranked A* according to ABDC)
- Tourism Demand Spillovers between Australia and New Zealand: Evidence from the Partner Countries (with Kan Tsui) Forthcoming in Journal of Travel Research (Ranked A* according to ABDC).
- The impact of Hizmet (Gulen) Movement on Turkey's Bilateral Trade (with Oguz Uras and Abdulkadir Civan) Economic Modelling, 2015, 45, 74-82. (Ranked A according to ABDC) Featured in Mehtap TV of Turkey at December 17 2014 Featured in Zaman newspaper of Turkey at 17 November 2014 Featured in Zaman newspaper of Turkey at 18 November 2014
- Inter-regional Spillover Effects in New Zealand International Tourism Demand (with Hatice Ozer Balli, and Joshua Curry) Tourism Geographies, 2015, 17(2), 262-278. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Portfolio Allocation and Risk Sharing, Economic Letters, 2014, 125(2), 187-190. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- The Impact of Marketing Expenditure on the International Tourism Demand of the Cook Islands (with Hatice Ozer Balli and Nikau Tangoroa) Tourism Economics, 2015, 21(6), 1331-1343. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Diversification across ASEAN-wide sectoral and national equity returns (with Hatice O. Balli, Ngoc, Luu) Economic Modelling, 2014, 41, 398-407. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Modelling the Tourism Receipt’s Volatility (with Rosmy Jean Louis) Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 22(12), 110-115.
- The determinants of the volatility of returns on cross-border asset holdings, Journal of International Money and Finance, 2014, 44, 1-23. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- International income risk-sharing and the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 (with Hatice Ozer Balli and Syed Basher), Journal of Banking and Finance, 2013, 37(7), 2303-2313. (Ranked A* according to ABDC)
- Oil Price and Stock Market Synchronization in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (with Rosmy Jean Louis) Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, 2014, 50(1), 22-51.
- Impacts of Exported Turkish Soap Operas and Visa-free Entry on Inbound Tourism to Turkey (with Hatice Ozer Balli and Kemal Cebeci) Tourism Management (Ranked A* according to ABDC), 2013, 37, 186-192. Featured in Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2014 Featured in Publico (Portugal Daily Newspaper) in November, 2, 201 Winner of the Emerald/ European Foundation for Management Development: MENA Management Research Fund Award
- Sectoral Equity Returns and Portfolio Diversification Opportunities across the GCC Region (with Faruk Balli and Rosmy Jean Louis) Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money (Ranked A according to ABDC), 2013, 25, 33-48.
- Risk Sharing in the Middle East and North Africa. The Role of Remittances and Factor Incomes (with Syed Basher and Rosmy Jean Louis), Economics of Transition, 2013, 21, 135-155. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Low-Inflation-Targeting Monetary Policy and Differential Unemployment Rate: Is Monetary Policy to be blamed for the Financial Crisis? (with Rosmy Jean Louis) Economic Modeling 2013, 30, 546-564. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Channels of Risk-Sharing among Canadian provinces: 1961-2006 (with Rosmy Jean Louis, and Syed A. Basher), Empirical Economics, 2012, 43(2), 763-787. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Featured in Economic logic Blog in May 2009
- Time-varying Spillover Effects on Sectoral Equity Returns (with Hatice Ozer Balli and Rosmy Jean Louis) International Review of Finance, 2013, 13(1), 67-91. (Ranked A according to ABDC).
- On the Empirics of Income Smoothing across MENA Countries (with Hatice Ozer Balli), Applied Economics, 2013, 45(23), 3370-3377. (Ranked A according to ABDC),
- Risk Sharing through Capital Gains (with Bent E. Sorensen and Sebnem Kalemli- Ozcan), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2012, 45(2), 472–492. (Ranked A according to ABDC) Featured in Vox. Eu Economics Blog in May 2012.
- Decomposing the Income Insurance Channel across Developed and Emerging Markets (with Hatice Ozer Balli and Rosmy Jean Louis) International Review of Finance, 2013, 11(4), 515-535. (Ranked A according to ABDC),
- On the feasibility of a North American monetary union - does it make sense to look for shocks symmetry across countries when none of the countries constitutes an optimum currency area? (with Rosmy Jean Louis and Ryan Brown) Economic Modeling, 2011, 28(6), 2701-2718. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Income Insurance and Determinants of Income Insurance via Foreign Asset Revenues and Foreign Liability Payments (2011). (with Syed A. Basher and Hatice O. Balli) Economic Modeling 28(5), 2296-2306. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- On the Choice of an Anchor for the GCC currency: does the Symmetry of Shocks Extend to Both the Oil and the Non-Oil Sectors (with Rosmy Jean Louis, and Mohammad Osman) International Economics and Economic Policy, 2012, 9(1), 83-110.
- Income Smoothing and Welfare Gains across Pacific Island Countries: The Role of Remittances, Financial Aid and Savings (with Hatice Ozer Balli) Economic Modelling, 2011, 28(4), 1642-1649. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Is the US Dollar a Suitable Anchor for the Newly Proposed GCC Currency? (with Rosmy Jean Louis and Mohammad Osman) The World Economy, 2010, 33, (12), 1898–1922. (Ranked A according to ABDC)
- Sectoral Equity Returns in the Euro Region: Is There any Room for Reducing the Portfolio Risk? (with Hatice Ozer-Balli) Journal of Economics and Business, 2011, 63(2), 89-106.
- From Home Bias to Euro Bias: Disentangling the effects of Monetary Union on the European Financial Markets (with Syed A. Basher and Hatice Ozer-Balli) Journal of Economics and Business, 2010, 62 (5), 347-366.
- International Portfolio Inflows to Arab G.C.C. Markets. Are there any General Patterns? (with Rosmy Jean Louis, and Mohammad Osman.) Middle East Review of Economics and Finance (Berkeley Electronic Press), 2009, 5(
- Modeling the Currency in Circulation for the State of Qatar (with Elsayed Mousa Elsamadisy) International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 2012, 5(4), 321-329.
- Estimating the output gap for the UAE: a production function approach (with Rosmy Jean Louis, and Mohammad Osman) International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2012, 5(1), 76-8
- On the feasibility of monetary union among Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries: does the symmetry of shocks extend to the non-oil sector? (with Rosmy Jean Louis and Mohammad Osman) Journal of Economics and Finance, 2012, 36(2), 319-334.
- International Portfolio Inflows to Arab G.C.C. Markets. Do Institutional Quality and the Expatriates Play a Role? (with Rosmy Jean Louis, and Mohammad Osman) Journal of Economics and Finance, 2011, 35(4), 434-455.
- Which Output Gap Measure Matters for the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: The Overall GDP Output Gap or the Non-Oil Sector Output Gap? (with Rosmy Jean Louis, and Mohammad Osman.) International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2010, 35, 7-28.
- Income Smoothing and Foreign Asset Holdings (with Rosmy Jean Louis, and Mohammad Osman.) Journal of Economics and Finance, 2010, 34(1), 23-29.
- Spillover Effects on Government Bond Yields in Euro Zone. Does Perfect Financial Integration Exist in European Government Bond Markets? Journal of Economics and Finance, 2009, 33(4) 319-361.
- Output Gap and Inflation Nexus: The Case of United Arab Emirates (with Rosmy Jean Louis, and Mohammad Osman) International Journal of Business and Economics Research, 2009, 1, 119-134.
- Channels of Risk Sharing among EMU Countries, Proceedings, International Human and Economic Resources Conference, (Izmir, Turkey) May 2006