Case Studies

 
The Institute welcomes readers to contribute to its online library of Financial Ethics Case Studies (FECS). The cases should be financial in scope and contain ethical issues. These issues should then be discussed and analyzed using one or more rigorous frameworks of Moral Philosophy. Remedies or policy recommendations are encouraged.  Please send case studies to: kara@sevenpillarsinstitute.org.

       LIST OF CASE STUDIES

  1. Financial Ethics 101: Portfolio Pumping
  2. Financial Ethics 101: Predatory Lending
  3. AI Job Displacements: UBI to the Rescue?
  4. Financial Ethics 101: Market Manipulation
  5. Labor Exploitation: Case Study of Top Glove
  6. Effective Altruism After Sam Bankman-Fried
  7. The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank
  8. Financial Ethics 101: Conflict of Interest
  9. ESG Investing: Perils and Pertinence
  10. Case Study: FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
  11. Financial Ethics 101: Fiduciary Duty
  12. The Problem with ChatGPT Writing Your Essay
  13. EU Carbon Border Tax: Justice Matters
  14. Amazon Bestseller: Ethics in Finance
  15. Financial Ethics 101: Insider Trading
  16. Ethics in Finance Second Edition Now Available
  17. Native Colleges Need Money Not Apologies
  18. The Green Climate Fund Lacks Procedural Justice
  19. COP27: Adaptation Without Mitigation
  20. Financial Ethics 101: Money Laundering
  21. Higher Interest Rates in Australia: Burdens and Rewards
  22. The Ethics of India Buying Russian Oil
  23. The Justness of Russian Sanctions
  24. Ethics View: Cloudflare in Russia
  25. Seven Pillars Institute Special Report: An Ethics Assessment of the IEA’s Net Zero by 2020
  26. NFTs: Risks, Rewards, Ethics
  27. McKinsey and Its Opioids Scandal
  28. The Ethics of China’s Zero Covid Policy
  29. An Alternative Approach to Wealth Tax
  30. AI in Finance: Opportunities, Sustainability, Ethics
  31. Blockchain as a Force for Good (Part 1)
  32. Blockchain as a Force for Good (Part 2)
  33. Green Bonds without Greenwashing
  34. Ethics Update on Cryptocurrencies
  35. Covid-19 Pandemic Worsens Inequality
  36. Universal Basic Income: A Pandemic Based Reassessment
  37. Climate Change, Diversity, Inclusion: Where Warren Buffet Stands
  38. The EU Taxonomy
  39. Ethics Review: Global Minimum Corporate Tax
  40. Case Study: Luckin Coffee Accounting Fraud
  41. Council for Inclusive Capitalism: Greenwashing Dangers
  42. Ethics Review: DOL Fiduciary Rule
  43. Case Studies from a Woman’s Life on Wall Street
  44. Ethics Review: Donor Advised Funds
  45. Case Study: Equifax Data Breach
  46. Ethics Study: Silicon Valley Housing Crisis
  47. Ethics Review of Carbon Taxes
  48. The Ethics of Impact Investing
  49. Ethics Analysis: Fossil Fuel Divestment
  50. Central Banks: New Stakeholders of Human Rights
  51. CliFin Case Study: The European Green Deal
  52. Wirecard: Another Fintech Fraud
  53. Tax Avoidance, Its Effects, and Dutch Facilitation
  54. Ethics Analysis: The (Non)Use of University Endowments for Pandemic Shortfalls
  55. Finance Needs ‘Bilinguals’ Too
  56. Evaluating the Paycheck Protection Program
  57. Human Rights and Austerity: The IMF as a Handmaiden of Neoliberalism
  58. Ethics Review of Green Bonds
  59. High Frequency Trading(2): Ethics Assessment
  60. High Frequency Trading(1): Empirical Assessment
  61. Mutual Fund Fees: Transparency and Worth
  62. Are Museums Right to Refuse Sackler Money?
  63. Greenwashing: The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Case
  64. Is Warren Buffett an Ethical Investor?
  65. The Case of Danske Bank and Money Laundering
  66. Banking Structure Shapes Banking Ethics
  67. Fintech Payday Lending: The Case of Wonga
  68. Hikvision and Dahua: The Case for Divestment
  69. CliFin: Asset Management and Climate Change
  70. Peer to Peer Lending: Lending Club
  71. CliFin: Climate Finance to Avoid Climategeddon
  72. Big Data and Impact Investing
  73. The Case of Vijay Mallya and Kingfisher Airlines
  74. Ethics of College Football Funding: The Case of the University of Kansas
  75. Islamic Financing: Malaysian Sukuk
  76. Technology and Unemployment
  77. India’s DEMONetization: An Ethics Analysis
  78. Conflicts of Interest: Wilbur Ross
  79. ANZ, Deutsche Bank, Citi: Criminal Cartel Case
  80. Financial Ethics in Catholic Social Justice
  81. Ethics Assessment: International Financial Institutions
  82. ESG and Government Regulation
  83. Payday Lending: An Ethics Evaluation
  84. Commonwealth Bank of Australia Money Laundering Case
  85. Morgan Stanley Code of Ethics: 2008 vs. 2018
  86. Ethical Investing: Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund
  87. A Sweet Deal? The Ethics of Sugar Taxes
  88. Universal Basic Income: More Empirical Studies
  89. Ethics Assessment: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  90. Fairness Assessment: Australian Housing Tax Subsidies
  91. Och-Ziff’s African Bribery
  92. Globalization, Wealth Inequality…then Protectionism
  93. Flooding the Swamp: The Case of Michael Catanzaro
  94. CETA: Free Trade for the Common Good
  95. Impact Investing: Big Society Capital
  96. Battle for the Soul of Bitcoin
  97. Wealth Inequality Workshop: A Video Documentary
  98. Philosophical Foundations of Impact Investing
  99. Mylan’s EpiPen Pricing Scandal
  100. Bitcoin: To Regulate or Not To Regulate?
  101. Argentina vs. the Hedge Funds: the 2014 Argentina Bond Default
  102. Crash Interventions: Shanghai Stock Market Case
  103. Case Study: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
  104. Case Study: Iceland’s Banking Crisis
  105. Impact Investments: Good Profits?
  106. When Businessmen Rule The State
  107. Case Study: Deutsche Bank Money Laundering Scheme
  108. Ethics Analysis: The Panama Papers
  109. Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Scandal
  110. Ethics Analysis: Foreign Bribery Part 2: Trump Financial Ethics Watch Series
  111. Ethics Analysis: Trump’s Conflicts of Interest Part 1: Trump Financial Ethics Watch Series
  112. Ethics of US Student Loan Debt
  113. Pharmaceutical Industry Ethics
  114. The Valeant Pharmaceuticals Case
  115. Trade Adjustment Assistance and Game Theory
  116. Universal Basic Income: Empirical Studies
  117. Ethics of Universal Basic Income
  118. The Ethics of Tax Breaks on Bank Fines
  119. The Transparency Task Force
  120. 2008 Financial Crisis
  121. Review: The Big Short
  122. Ethics of Socially Responsible Funds
  123. Mitigating TBTF: The Australian Four Pillars Policy
  124. The Ethics of China’s Land Expropriation Rules and Reforms
  125. Necessity and The Minimum Wage
  126. Financing America’s Public Schools Ethically
  127. The Alchemy of the G-30 Report on Banking Conduct and Culture
  128. Has Bank Culture Changed to Ensure Ethical Behavior?
  129. More on the Ethics of Bitcoin
  130. Ferguson: A Financial Ethics Explanation
  131. Tax Systems: A Brief Ethical Discourse
  132. The Case of Goldman Sachs and 1MDB
  133. The Ethics of Bitcoin
  134. Ethical Issues of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis
  135. Forex Scandal: The Ethics of Exchange Rate Manipulation
  136. Codes of Ethics for Financial Institutions
  137. Income Inequality Series
  138. Insider Trading Cases
  139. Taxation Cases
  140. India Series
  141. Asian Cases
  142. Global Financial Leaders Insist on the Necessity of Financial Ethics
  143. JPMorgan: Code of Ethics and Revisions Since the 2008 Financial Crisis
  144. Goldman Sachs: Code of Ethics Post 2008
  145. Trans-Pacific Partnership: Common Good or Corporate Good?
  146. China and Corruption: The Case of GlaxoSmithKline
  147. Ethics and Trickle Down Economics: A Case Study of Kansas
  148. Community Banking: The Case of The Bank of Prairie Village
  149. Greek Debt Crisis: The EU Should Learn from UAE
  150. The Ethics of Executive Compensation: A Matter of Duty
  151. The Ethics of Swiss National Bank’s Currency Intervention
  152. Credit Default Swaps: An Update
  153. Profit and Ethics in Short Selling: The Case of Muddy Waters
  154. The Fall of Anglo Irish Bank
  155. Corporate Fraud in India: Case Studies of Sahara and Saradha
  156. Corporate Disasters in India: Bhopal, Uphaar and AMRI Hospital
  157. Hong Kong: Economic Freedom Belies Crony Capitalism
  158. An Ethical Analysis of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil
  159. Cross Border Securities Enforcement: The Case of Tiger Asia Management, LLC
  160. The Effectiveness and Ethics of Economic Sanctions
  161. The Vatican Bank: Conforming to Caritas in Veritate?
  162. Policy and Poverty: US, UK and China
  163. Cheung Kong and the Apex Horizon Hotel
  164. Chinese Investments in Africa: The Ethics of Transparency
  165. The Bangladeshi Factory Collapse: A Case for Intervention and Policy Change
  166. The LIBOR Scandal and Reform Agenda: Can We Trust These Rates Again?
  167. What Should We Charge the Poor: Ethics in Microfinance
  168. Shining a Light on Dark Pools
  169. The EU Financial Transaction Tax Debate
  170. HSBC Money Laundering Case: “Too Big to Fail” does not mean “Too Big to Jail”
  171. Quantitative Easing and Income Inequality
  172. Bank of America’s Takeover of Merrill Lynch
  173. Insider Trading in Japan: The Nomura Case
  174. Private Equity Funds: Christian Ethics and Leveraged Buyout Funding
  175. The FSA vs. David Einhorn: A Case of Regulatory Overreach?
  176. Nationalization: Argentina vs. Spain, The YPF Repsol Case
  177. Jon Corzine and MF Global
  178. Dimon and the Whale
  179. The Ethics of Taxation Trilogy: Part I – An Ethical Analysis of Inheritance Tax
  180. The Ethics of Taxation Trilogy: Part II – The Buffett Rule: The Ethics of a Millionaire’s Tax
  181. The Ethics of Taxation Trilogy: Part III – Carried Interest and Taxing Private Equity
  182. Taiwan’s Asset Management Corporations
  183. Insider Trading: What Would Rawls Do?
  184. The Dearth of Ethics and the Death of Lehman Brothers
  185. Financing, Ethics, and the Brazilian Olympics
  186. Islamic Finance
  187. Taiwan’s Credit Card Crisis
  188. The Accumulation of Greek Debt
  189. Goldman Sachs and the ABACUS deal
  190. High Frequency Trading
  191. Hedge Funds
  192. Disclosure: The Bernie Madoff Case
  193. Mark Cuban and Insider Trading
  194. IndyMac and the Office of Thrift Supervision
  195. Lehman Brothers and Repo Accounting
  196. Municipal Reinvestment Case
  197. Raj Rajaratnam and Insider Trading