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