Refk Selmi

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Refk Selmi is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Refk Selmi has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 21 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and 17 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Refk Selmi's work include Market Dynamics and Volatility (48 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (18 papers) and Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (18 papers). Refk Selmi is often cited by papers focused on Market Dynamics and Volatility (48 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (18 papers) and Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (18 papers). Refk Selmi collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Tunisia. Refk Selmi's co-authors include Jamal Bouoiyour, Shawkat Hammoudeh, Mark E. Wohar, Walid Mensi, Aviral Kumar Tiwari, Muhammad Shahbaz, Abdullah Alqahtani, Rangan Gupta, Hongbing Ouyang and Christian Pierdzioch and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Energy and Energy Economics.

In The Last Decade

Refk Selmi

55 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Is Bitcoin a hedge, a safe haven or a diversifier for oil price movements? A comparison with gold

2018 407 citations Refk Selmi, Walid Mensi et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Refk Selmi France	21	1.5k	455	341	333	307	56	1.6k
Jamal Bouoiyour France	18	1.3k 0.9×	459 1.0×	337 1.0×	289 0.9×	354 1.2×	68	1.6k
Yonghong Jiang China	22	1.5k 1.0×	359 0.8×	389 1.1×	330 1.0×	294 1.0×	36	1.6k
Tony Klein United Kingdom	18	1.7k 1.1×	644 1.4×	564 1.7×	295 0.9×	255 0.8×	56	1.9k
Khaled Mokni Tunisia	26	1.7k 1.1×	337 0.7×	451 1.3×	432 1.3×	286 0.9×	56	1.8k
Ahmed H. Elsayed United Kingdom	25	1.6k 1.1×	375 0.8×	523 1.5×	314 0.9×	299 1.0×	57	1.9k
Francisco Jareño Spain	25	2.1k 1.4×	418 0.9×	615 1.8×	464 1.4×	406 1.3×	97	2.3k
Johnson A. Oliyide Nigeria	21	1.8k 1.2×	191 0.4×	406 1.2×	487 1.5×	250 0.8×	48	2.0k
He Nie China	17	1.2k 0.8×	302 0.7×	265 0.8×	273 0.8×	255 0.8×	28	1.3k
Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah Ghana	27	2.8k 1.9×	552 1.2×	913 2.7×	605 1.8×	305 1.0×	104	3.0k
Libing Fang China	20	1.2k 0.8×	200 0.4×	476 1.4×	149 0.4×	319 1.0×	35	1.4k

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Tabash, Mosab I., et al.. (2025). The asymmetric effects of European carbon emission trading system on European stock market returns: The moderating role of oil price uncertainty. International Review of Financial Analysis. 104. 104324–104324. 1 indexed citations

Selmi, Refk, et al.. (2024). ‘From aspirations for climate action to the reality of climate disasters’: Can remittances play key role in disaster response?. World Economy. 47(8). 3487–3510. 4 indexed citations

Mensi, Walid, et al.. (2024). Connectedness between green bonds, conventional bonds, oil, heating oil, natural gas, and petrol: new evidence during bear and bull market scenarios. Resources Policy. 91. 104888–104888. 27 indexed citations

Selmi, Refk, et al.. (2023). Dynamic spillovers in higher moments and jumps across ETFs and economic and financial uncertainty factors in the context of successive shocks. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. 93. 210–228. 11 indexed citations

Mensi, Walid, Debasish Maitra, Refk Selmi, & Xuan Vinh Vo. (2023). Extreme dependencies and spillovers between gold and stock markets: evidence from MENA countries. Financial Innovation. 9(1). 47–47. 11 indexed citations

Selmi, Refk, et al.. (2023). The Decision to Remit: Is it a Matter of Interpersonal Trust?. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository.

Selmi, Refk, Shawkat Hammoudeh, & Mark E. Wohar. (2022). What drives most jumps in global crude oil prices? Fundamental shortage conditions, cartel, geopolitics or the behaviour of financial market participants. World Economy. 46(3). 598–618. 8 indexed citations

Bouoiyour, Jamal & Refk Selmi. (2021). The financial costs of terrorism: evidence from Germany. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

Selmi, Refk, et al.. (2021). The energy transition, Trump energy agenda and COVID-19. International Economics. 165. 140–153. 13 indexed citations

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Selmi, Refk, Jamal Bouoiyour, & Shawkat Hammoudeh. (2020). Common and country-specific uncertainty fluctuations in oil-producing countries : Measures, macroeconomic effects and policy challenges. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Selmi, Refk, et al.. (2020). Is there an effect of policy-related uncertainty on inflation? evidence from the United States under Trump. Applied Economics. 52(35). 3858–3873. 10 indexed citations

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Selmi, Refk & Jamal Bouoiyour. (2019). Arab geopolitics in turmoil: Implications of Qatar-Gulf crisis for business. International Economics. 161. 100–119. 32 indexed citations

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Selmi, Refk, Aviral Kumar Tiwari, & Shawkat Hammoudeh. (2018). Efficiency or speculation? A dynamic analysis of the Bitcoin market. Economics bulletin. 38(4). 2037–2046. 26 indexed citations

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Bouoiyour, Jamal & Refk Selmi. (2018). Are BRICS Markets Equally Exposed to Trump’s Agenda?. Journal of Economic Integration. 33(2). 1203–1233. 5 indexed citations

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Bouoiyour, Jamal & Refk Selmi. (2017). The Bitcoin price formation: Beyond the fundamental sources. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Bouoiyour, Jamal & Refk Selmi. (2016). Bitcoin: a beginning of a new phase?. Economics bulletin. 36(3). 1430–1440. 89 indexed citations

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Bouoiyour, Jamal & Refk Selmi. (2014). What Does Crypto-currency Look Like? Gaining Insight into Bitcoin Phenomenon. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 3 indexed citations

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Bouoiyour, Jamal & Refk Selmi. (2014). GCC countries and the nexus between exchange rate and oil price: What wavelet decomposition reveals?. International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics. 5(1). 55–55. 1 indexed citations

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Bouoiyour, Jamal & Refk Selmi. (2014). What Bitcoin Looks Like?. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 8 indexed citations

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Bouoiyour, Jamal & Refk Selmi. (2014). The nexus between electricity consumption and economic growth in MENA countries. 20(2). 15 indexed citations

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