Qualitative Research in Financial Markets: Volume 7 Issue 2

Facing up to fund managers: An exploratory field study of how institutional investors make decisions

Les Coleman

– The paper aims to describe the behind-the-scenes strategy and processes that fund managers use to make investment decisions.

An e-Delphi experiment of quality of equity predictions in online groups

Tobias Endress

This paper aims to present the results of experiments with groups making online group stock price predictions and include the research process and a summary of the preliminary…

Shari’ah supervision in the Yemeni Islamic banks: a qualitative survey

Abdullah Mohammed Ayedh, Abdelghani Echchabi

– The purpose of this study is mainly to comprehensively investigate the current practices of Islamic banks’ Shari’ah supervisory boards in the specific context of Yemen.

New regulations: challenge or opportunity for Turkish SMEs?

Sema Bayraktar

This study aims to analyze how recent regulation changes, namely, Basel II and the New Turkish Commercial Code, affect small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the…

Identifying Islamic alternatives to short selling in Iranian stock market and prioritizing them using TOPSIS

Maysam Ahmadvand, Hadi Khajezadeh Dezfuli, Mohamad Javad Sadehvand

This paper aims to first explain short selling and its benefits and damages; then, using experts’ opinions and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution…

Editorial

Bruce Burton