Concept information
Preferred term
finance ethics
Definition(s)
- Finance is concerned broadly with the generation, allocation, and management of monetary resources for any purpose. It includes personal finance, whereby individuals save, invest, and borrow money to conduct their lives; corporate finance, whereby business organizations raise capital, mainly through the issue of stocks and bonds, and manage it to engage in economic production; and public finance, whereby governments raise revenue by means of taxation and borrowing and spend it to provide services for their citizens. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Finance, Ethics of]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- arbitrage
- asymmetric information
- auction market
- banker's trust
- barter
- Berle-Dodd debate
- blue sky laws
- Bretton Woods
- CFA Institute
- Chicago school of economics
- Chief Financial Officers
- churning (investment)
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Date: 1977 Community Reinvestment Act
- Comptroller of the Currency
- contingent valuation
- deceptive practices
- deferred compensation plans
- divestment
- Domini Social Investments
- due diligence
- economies of scale
- Date: 1974 Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- employee stock ownership plans
- ethical investment
- ethical issues in bankruptcy
- Export-Import Bank
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Reserve System
- fiduciary duty
- fiduciary norm
- Financial Accounting Standards Board
- financial derivatives
- financial manipulation
- financial services industry
- Date: 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- fraud
- free markets
- free riding
- free trade, free trade agreements, free trade zones
- Date: 1929-1939 Great Depression
- hedge funds
- human capital
- incentive compatibility
- individual retirement accounts
- information costs
- insider trading
- intergenerational equity
- International Monetary Fund
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- leveraged buyouts
- life settlements
- long-term capital management
- market bubbles
- market failure
- market for lemons
- market transparency
- Martha Stewart
- maximum sustainable yield
- mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers
- Milton Friedman
- money laundering
- National Association of Securities Dealers
- net present value
- opportunity costs
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
- perfect markets and market imperfections
- ponzi schemes
- predatory pricing and trading
- prudent investor rule
- regulation and regulatory agencies
- religiously motivated investing
- Risk Retention Act of 1981
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Securities Industry Association
- Security Industry Association
- shareholder activism
- shareholder model of corporate governance
- shareholder resolutions
- shareholders
- shareholder wealth maximization
- side payments
- signaling (economics)
- social discount rate
- Social Investment Forum
- socially responsible investing
- soft dollar brokerage
- speculation and speculator
- stakeholder economy
- theory of efficient markets
- transparency (accounting)
- wealth creation
- wealth (economics)
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-HLWHPZWH-0
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