You Can Count on It! Using County Auditors\u27 Data for Marketing Research Group Projects

Marketing educators who teach research-based courses face several challenges in the designing and teaching of analytical-based group projects. The “ideal” research project contains all the elements of the research process as shown in Figure 1 (Neuman 2009, Zeis, Shah, Regassa, & Ahmadian 2001). Fewer pedagogical limitations would exist, such as a limited 16-week semester and time constraints relating to selecting a topic, survey development and distribution, institutional review board approvals, and of course data collection to name a few

Regulatory Focus on Conduct Risk—Hungarian Case Study on Qualitative and Quantitative Tools for Risk Mitigation

Due to the inadequate conduct of their business, financial institutions have recently sustained severe losses, as a result of which the management of conduct risks has become increasingly prominent in regulation. This paper describes the position of conduct risk within the framework of risk management, and uses Hungarian and international examples involving major losses to illustrate the need for the adequate management of conduct risks. This is followed by a description of how to manage the type of risk in question using the qualitative and quantitative tools of operational risk management. A quantitative analysis is then carried out to illustrate the effects on capital requirement achieved by taking into account conduct risks in various components of the internal models