Wael Rouatbi

Dr. Wael Rouatbi

Montpellier Business School, 2300 Avenue des Moulins, CEDEX 4, 34185 Montpellier, France
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Academic Career Length

14Years (2013-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 December 2015 in Journal of Corporate Finance
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Hamdi Ben-Nasr
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Sabri Boubaker
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Wael Rouatbi

6 March 2016 in European Financial Management
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Pascal Nguyen
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Wael Rouatbi

4 November 2016 in Financial Management
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Sabri Boubaker
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Wael Rouatbi
WSWalid Saffar
Walid Saffar

1 June 2014 in Journal of Banking & Finance
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Alexis Cellier
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Wael Rouatbi

27 September 2019 in Annals of Operations Research
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Riadh Manita
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Wael Rouatbi

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Ender Demir
RKRenatas Kizys
Renatas Kizys
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Wael Rouatbi
Adam ZarembaAdam Zaremba
Adam Zaremba
The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated both the risk and volatility of energy companies. Can mass vaccinations restore stability within this sector? To answer this question, we investigate stock market data from fifty-eight countries from January 2020 to April 2021. We document that vaccination programs assist in decreasing the volatility of energy stocks around the world. The drop in volatility is statistically and economically significant and robust to many considerations. The observed phenomenon survives a broad battery of control variables; it is also independent of the employed regression model or the volatility measurement approach. Moreover, the effect is not driven by the dynamics of the pandemic itself or the associated government interventions. Finally, we find the influence of vaccinations on energy stock volatility to be more pronounced in developed markets rather than in emerging ones. Our findings bear clear practical implications: policy makers around the world should consider the essential role of vaccinations in the energy sector.