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The business scandals of the past decades have intensified the interest of research and practice in ethical decison making in organizations. Questionable business practices of companies and leaders, as well as misconduct by employees at the workplace can often have far-reaching repercussions and lead to high financial costs, as well as the loss of trust and reputation. An urgent question for both business and academic research is, therefore, what circumstances influence the occurrence of unethical behavior. Behavioral ethics is a relatively new and promising line of research where economists, psychologists, and ethicists work together to better understand which personal and situational factors make unethical behavior easier or more difficult. The Center for Responsibility in Finance at the University of Zurich is a platform for such questions and related empirical studies.