The launch of financial reforms in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) at the beginning of the 1990s stimulated increased interest of investors and academics in the newly-born stock markets of this region. Most of the existing studies, however, consider a group of the CEE markets, stressing their...

The work covers a variety of aspects, with the four main chapters combining qualitative and quantitative information on the hedge fund industry. Generally speaking, Chapters 2, 3, and the first part of Chapter 4 provide qualitative hedge fund research while quantitative aspects are discussed in...