Schäfer On Values in Finance and Ethics

Forgotten Trails and Promising Pathways
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-04684-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 108 Seiten

Reihe: SpringerBriefs in Finance

This book uses the building blocks of modern capital market theory, including behavioural finance, as the point of departure for an analysis of hidden ethical content in the contemporary research into capital markets. 
It illustrates the significant degree of alienation between the financial and the real side of economies, stemming from the long-standing struggle between ethics and economics. Furthermore, it provides a roadmap of modern value thinking, highlighting the crucial role of stakeholders and non-governmental organizations.

Henry Schäfer is the chair of corporate finance at the University of Stuttgart. He has held the chair of business administration at the University of Siegen. Prior to his academic activities, Henry Schäfer worked as a senior financial consultant in an international M&A boutique and a major German bank. His research subjects include the behavioral science of capital market theory and market microstructure theory and valuation of assets objects. 

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schäfer, Henry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;7
3;Abbreviations;9
4;Notations;11
5;List of Figures;12
6;Chapter 1: Introduction;14
7;Chapter 2: A ``Selfie´´ of Finance and Ethics;18
7.1;2.1 The Building Blocks of the Modern House of Finance: Capital Market Theory and Finance;21
7.2;2.2 Crisis, What Crisis? The House of Finance in a Seismic Environment;33
7.3;2.3 Rigor Versus Relevance: The Potential of Sustainability to Promote a Scientific Revolution Program in Finance in the Sense...;36
7.3.1;2.3.1 Stakeholder Versus Shareholder;36
7.3.2;2.3.2 The Paradox of Social Costs;38
8;Chapter 3: On Values: The (Hidden) Ethical Framework in Capital Market Theory (An Outline of Ethics in Economics and Finance);40
8.1;3.1 The Classical Links Between Values, Money, and Finance: Religions and Institutions;41
8.2;3.2 Ethics and Finance: The Matrix;44
8.2.1;3.2.1 Building Blocks of Ethics with Respect to Economics and Finance;46
8.2.2;3.2.2 Ethics in the Neoclassical Paradigm and in the Theory of Finance;47
8.2.3;3.2.3 Overcoming the Separation Principle in Finance;50
8.2.3.1;3.2.3.1 Ethics and Arbitrage;53
8.2.3.2;3.2.3.2 ``Rocking´´ the Modigliani/Miller Theorem;55
9;Chapter 4: Key Points of Sustainability and CSR: Stakeholder Theory and the Theory of External Effects;56
9.1;4.1 Starting from the ``Interior of the Earth´´: Neoclassical Paradigm and the Problem of External Effects;57
9.1.1;4.1.1 A Tax for Good;59
9.1.2;4.1.2 A Market for ``Bads´´;59
9.2;4.2 The Concept of Sustainable Development and Its Links to Finance;61
9.3;4.3 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Twin to Sustainability?;68
10;Chapter 5: Understanding How Stakeholders Are Affecting Sustainability and Finance;73
10.1;5.1 Why Should Firms Care About CSR, Stakeholders, and NGOs? A Knowledge-Based View;75
10.2;5.2 Stakeholder Theory, Firm Behavior, and the Link to Finance;77
10.3;5.3 Interactions Between Firms, Stakeholder, and Nongovernmental Organizations;79
11;Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks;83
11.1;6.1 Only the Bad Counts;86
11.2;6.2 Inside Out and Outside In;88
11.3;6.3 Shades of Gray;88
11.4;6.4 Bringing Home the Bacon;89
11.5;6.5 Setting a Fox to Keep the Geese;89
11.6;6.6 It Is Always Good to Be Good;90
11.7;6.7 Power to the People;91
11.8;6.8 ``Brain Salad Surgery´´;92
11.9;6.9 Information Overflow;93
11.10;6.10 A Wolf in Sheep´s Clothing?;94
12;Chapter 7: Perspectives;96
13;Correction to: Introduction;98
13.1;Correction to: Chapter 1 in: H. Schäfer, On Values in Finance and Ethics, SpringerBriefs in Finance, https://doi.org/10.1007/9...;98
14;Bibliography;99