caa a22 4500 605485909 CHVBK 20210128100443.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2193-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2193-9 West Jason Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, 4111, Nathan, QLD, Australia aut Quantitative Method in Finance: From Detachment to Ethical Engagement [Elektronische Daten] [Jason West] Quantitative analysts or "Quants” are a source of competitive advantage for financial institutions. They occupy the relatively powerful but often misunderstood role of modeling, structuring, and pricing complex financial instruments in the capital markets. But Quants often function in a discipline free from ethical burdens. Models used to price complex instruments are usually beyond the mathematical understanding of financial sector participants who rely heavily on the integrity of the Quant who built them. Although there has been some attempt to cover the ethics of mathematics applied to the capital markets, designing a set of rules to guide the ethical behavior of Quants cannot be made explicit and remains inexpressible. Because Quants generally experience a sense of detachment from moral obligation, there is a growing need to convert moral detachment into engagement. Our framework is indebted to key elements of Wittgenstein's practical ethics philosophy and Rawls' justice principle. The burden of balancing justice as fairness as defined by Rawls with the inability to explicitly articulate ethical rules as defined by Wittgenstein must fall to the Quant. We propose that the threshold delineating the barrier between ethical detachment and engagement can only be defined by the Quants themselves. It is their moral duty to disclose their level of ethical engagement when their models are put into practice. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Quantitative finance nationallicence Moral engagement nationallicence Rawls nationallicence Wittgenstein nationallicence Mathematical models nationallicence Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 129/3(2015-07-01), 599-611 0167-4544 129:3<599 2015 129 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2193-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2193-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- West Jason Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, 4111, Nathan, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 129/3(2015-07-01), 599-611 0167-4544 129:3<599 2015 129 10551