This study sets out to identify the trading patterns of foreign investors versus those of Qatar's domestic counterparts. Specifically, two chief issues are addressed. First, whether the buyside and sellside behaviours of individual and institutional foreign investor groups are different from...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interrelationships amongst the sector-specific indices of the Qatar Exchange (QE) (i.e. Banking and Financial Institutions (BFI), Industrial (IND), Insurance (INS), and Services (SER)). More specifically, three key issues are explored...

Purpose –The main thrust of the present study is to look into the trading patterns of behavior and investment performance exhibited by individual and institutional investor categories in the Qatar Exchange (QE). The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Contributing to the meagre published literature on interrelationships amongst stock market sectors of an economy, the present study sets out to examine both the long-run and short-run aspects of the inter-sectoral linkages in the Egyptian stock market. The data correspond to daily closing prices...

This study investigates the long-run relationships and short-run dynamic linkages between the stock exchange of Egypt and its counterparts in Group of Seven (G7) countries, prior to and following the tragic events of September 2001, utilizing Johansen’s cointegration and variance decomposition...