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Mehmet Balcilar is affiliated with Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a particular focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Finance, and Information Systems.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics, which include:

  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling

Mehmet Balcilar has co-authored extensively with various researchers. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Rangan Gupta
  • Mark E. Wohar
  • Ojonugwa Usman
  • Hüseyin Özdemir
  • Büşra Ağan

The scientist's research has been published in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to journals such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sustainability
  • Resources Policy
  • The North American Journal of Economics and Finance
  • Empirical Economics

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Mehmet Balcilar include:

  • Crude Oil futures contracts and commodity markets: New evidence from a TVP-VAR extended joint connectedness approach, 2021, Resources Policy
  • Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development, 2023, Telecommunications Policy
  • On the dynamic return and volatility connectedness of cryptocurrency, crude oil, clean energy, and stock markets: a time-varying analysis, 2022, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Insurance and economic policy uncertainty, 2020, Research in International Business and Finance
  • Operational behaviours of multinational corporations, renewable energy transition, and environmental sustainability in Africa: Does the level of natural resource rents matter?, 2023, Resources Policy

The research output reflects an engagement with diverse but interconnected subjects such as commodity markets, environmental sustainability, economic policy uncertainty, and the financial dynamics of energy and clean technologies. This breadth illustrates an interdisciplinary approach within economics and finance frameworks aimed at understanding evolving market and environmental conditions.

Best Publications

  • Can volume predict Bitcoin returns and volatility? A quantiles-based approach

    Mehmet Balcilar;Elie Bouri;Rangan Gupta;David Roubaud

  • Can volume predict Bitcoin returns and volatility? A quantiles-based approach

    Mehmet Balcilar;Mehmet Balcilar;Elie Bouri;Rangan Gupta;David Roubaud

  • Economic growth and energy consumption causal nexus viewed through a bootstrap rolling window

    Mehmet Balcilar;Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir;Yalcin Arslanturk

  • Geopolitical risks and stock market dynamics of the BRICS

    Mehmet Balcilar;Mehmet Balcilar;Matteo Bonato;Riza Demirer;Rangan Gupta

  • Determinants of capital structure: evidence from Turkish lodging companies.

    Erdinc Karadeniz;Serkan Yilmaz Kandir;Mehmet Balcilar;Yildirim Beyazit Onal

  • Crude Oil futures contracts and commodity markets: New evidence from a TVP-VAR extended joint connectedness approach

    Mehmet Balcilar;David Gabauer;Zaghum Umar

  • The role of news-based uncertainty indices in predicting oil markets: a hybrid nonparametric quantile causality method

    Mehmet Balcilar;Stelios Bekiros;Rangan Gupta

  • Time-varying linkages between tourism receipts and economic growth in a small open economy

    Yalcin Arslanturk;Mehmet Balcilar;Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

  • Does uncertainty move the gold price? New evidence from a nonparametric causality-in-quantiles test

    Mehmet Balcilar;Mehmet Balcilar;Rangan Gupta;Christian Pierdzioch

  • The export-output growth nexus in Japan: a bootstrap rolling window approach

    Mehmet Balcilar;Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

  • The Causal Relationship Between Economic Policy Uncertainty and Stock Returns in China and India: Evidence from a Bootstrap Rolling Window Approach

    Xiao-lin Li;Mehmet Balcilar;Rangan Gupta;Tsangyao Chang

  • Risk spillovers across the energy and carbon markets and hedging strategies for carbon risk

    Mehmet Balcılar;Mehmet Balcılar;Rıza Demirer;Shawkat Hammoudeh;Duc Khuong Nguyen

  • Investor herds and regime-switching: Evidence from Gulf Arab stock markets

    Mehmet Balcilar;Rıza Demirer;Shawkat Hammoudeh

  • Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Predict Exchange Rate Returns and Volatility? Evidence from a Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Test

    Mehmet Balcilar;Mehmet Balcilar;Rangan Gupta;Clement Kweku Kyei;Mark E. Wohar;Mark E. Wohar

  • Regime switching model of US crude oil and stock market prices : 1859 to 2013

    Mehmet Balcilar;Mehmet Balcilar;Rangan Gupta;Stephen M. Miller

  • Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development

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  • On the dynamic return and volatility connectedness of cryptocurrency, crude oil, clean energy, and stock markets: a time-varying analysis

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  • Can economic policy uncertainty and investors sentiment predict commodities returns and volatility

    Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad;Naveed Raza;Mehmet Balcilar;Mehmet Balcilar;Sajid Ali

  • What drives herding in oil-rich, developing stock markets? Relative roles of own volatility and global factors

    Mehmet Balcilar;Rıza Demirer;Shawkat Hammoudeh

  • Temporal causality between house prices and output in the US: A bootstrap rolling-window approach

    Wendy Nyakabawo;Stephen M. Miller;Mehmet Balcilar;Mehmet Balcilar;Sonali Das;Sonali Das

  • The co-movement and causality between the U.S. housing and stock markets in the time and frequency domains

    Xiao-Lin Li;Tsangyao Chang;Stephen M. Miller;Mehmet Balcilar;Mehmet Balcilar

  • Causality between Exports and Economic Growth in South Africa: Evidence from Linear and Nonlinear Tests

    Ahdi Noomen Ajmi;Goodness Chioma Aye;Mehmet Balcilar;Rangan Gupta

  • A Comparative Analysis of Productivity Growth, Catch-Up, and Convergence in Transition Economies

    Ertugrul Deliktas;Mehmet Balcilar

Frequent Co-Authors

Rangan Gupta
Rangan Gupta University of Pretoria
Mark E. Wohar
Mark E. Wohar University of Nebraska at Omaha
Stephen M. Miller
Stephen M. Miller University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Riza Demirer
Riza Demirer Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Shawkat Hammoudeh
Shawkat Hammoudeh Drexel University
Muhammad Shahbaz
Muhammad Shahbaz Beijing Institute of Technology
Elie Bouri
Elie Bouri Lebanese American University
David Roubaud
David Roubaud Montpellier Business School
Ricardo M. Sousa
Ricardo M. Sousa University of Minho
Festus Victor Bekun
Festus Victor Bekun Gelişim Üniversitesi

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