The Observatoire de la Finance is a think tank where the financial world can study and debate issues of individual and collective responsibility.

The Observatoire de la Finance’s mission is to encourage account to be taken of the demands of the common good, both in and through financial activities.

Our mission and futur goals are expressed in our
Manifesto for finance that serves the common good (2009)
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(the text is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Russian)

Prize

The competition for the Ethics in Finance - Robin Cosgrove Prize invites young people, aged 35 years or younger, to submit written papers setting out innovative and creative ideas to promote ethics in finance and banking.

Beyond the global edition (inviting papers in English and in French), a special Premio Robin Cosgrove - Ética en las finanzas EDICIÓN IBEROAMERICANA was launched in October 2008, with the support of MAPFRE. Papers are accepted in Spanish and Portuguese.

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Publications

The last issue of our review Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun
N° 33 - Ethics in Finance. Surving the Crisis

The forthcoming issue of Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun:
Beyond Bretton Woods (No34-35).

Paul H. Dembinski,
Finance: Servant of Deceiver? Financialisation at the Crossroads
Observatoire de la Finance's Report

One has to consider the place that financial activities are taking in our economies.
The Observatoire de la Finance has analysed during more than ten years the financiarisation’s progress: its technical and economic dimension but also its models and values.

Published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.

French edition: Finance servante ou finance trompeuse?, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 2008, in the "Economie, finance et bien commun" collection.

Economic and Financial Globalization. What the Numbers Say

A new way to interpret figures
Regular publication: first edition 2003, second edition 2008.

Etienne Perrot, L’Art de décider en situations complexes

Published in December 2007, "L'Art de décider en situations complexes" is the first book of the "Economie, finance et bien commun" collection, published by Desclée de Brouwer, and of which the Observatoire de la Finance is responsible.

Enron and World Finance. A Case Study in Ethics

Edited by Paul H. Dembinski, Carole Lager, Andrew Cornford and Jean-Michel Bonvin.
Palgrave, 2005

Conferences

8th International Meeting on Ethics, Finance & Responsibility

Two days of debates and discussions to address several financial activities' issues in the light of ethics and responsibility concerns.

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