Editorial

摘要

A warm welcome to the first issue of Qualitative Research in Financial Markets in 2014. The first five-year period in the journal's life has proved to be very encouraging, with QRFM now attracting high quality work from around the work on such a regular basis that it has underpinned the launch of a dedicated research centre in the area at the University of Dundee in the UK. We will soon be organising centre-based events that bring together the type of work published and supported by QRFM and details of these will follow later this year. The journal's publishers, Emerald, have again been generous in supporting the award of QRFM-sponsored best paper prizes at leading conferences and to this end I was delighted to be able to award the most recent of these to Robert A. Olsen, for a paper accepted for the BFWG conference at Queen Mary, University of London in December. Robert's work bringing together the notions of risk perception, affect, qualia and their impact on individuals' decision-making will be well known to many QRFM readers and I am pleased to say that whilst the award-winning paper will itself be published later this year, another Olsen paper was already scheduled to be published in this issue and is discussed below.