Qualitative Research in Financial Markets: Volume 8 Issue 1

Gender differences in preferences for firm characteristics across different groups of investors

Mohammad Tariqul Islam Khan, Siow-Hooi Tan, Lee-Lee Chong

– This paper aims to study gender differences in preferences for firm characteristics across various groups of investors in Malaysia.

Environmental Risk Index for financial services firms

Lukasz Prorokowski

This paper aims to provide an index benchmarking financial services firms against their environmental performance. The paper also introduces a new definition of the environmental…

Are individual investors dumb noise traders: An analysis of their cognitive competence based on expert assessments

Philip Blonski, Simon Christian Blonski

The purpose of this study is to question the undifferentiated treatment of individual traders as “dumb noise traders?”. We question this undifferentiated verdict by conducting an…

Ethical banking in practice: a closer look at the Co-operative Bank UK PLC

Boon Cheong Chew, Lay Hong Tan, Syaiful Rizal Hamid

The main purposes of the study were to investigate the ethical banking operations based on the award-winning the UK Co-operative Bank which has successfully brought significant…