Sentiment Analysis on Short Selling: An Islamic Perspective

Abstract

This research was conducted to examine the perception of short selling within the scope of the Islamic capital market sector in terms of scientific research in published journals that discuss short selling. The method used is descriptive statistical analysis with meta-analysis, sentiment analysis from secondary data in the form of 30 papers published in the last 10 years, then processed using Microsoft Excel 2016 and SentiStrength software. The results of the sentiment analysis show that there is a tendency for perceptions that tend to be blurred in the scientific literature on short selling, with neutral sentiment at 40%, negative sentiment at 37%, positive sentiment at 23%, and the remaining high negative sentiment and high positive sentiment at 0%. The results of the meta-analysis also show that in the last 10 years there is still not much research on short selling, so there is still a lot that needs to be studied about short selling. In addition, publications related to short selling have fluctuated from year to year.