About Qualitative Research in Financial Markets

Aims and scope

Qualitative Research in Financial Markets (QRFM) explicitly encourages methodological analyses of the issues arising from the use of qualitative methods in financial markets research as well as empirical articles addressing the following topics:

• The methodological underpinning of qualitative study in finance including reviews of recent developments
• Attempts to reform global banking systems, models and reputation
• Behavioural finance, both theoretical perspectives and empirical analyses
• Emotional finance, including the implications of unconscious influences on decision-making
• The role of market timing in relation to major corporate news releases
• Principal-agent relationships in the modern global financial environment
• Responses to changes in corporate governance regulations and structures
• Practitioner perspectives on external financing decisions
• Corporate communication and the transmission of price-sensitive information
• The effect of the sub-prime lending crisis on financial market structure and regulation.

Qualitative Research in Financial Markets is associated with the newly-formed Centre for Qualitative Research in Finance (CQRF) housed at the University of Dundee.