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Monthly Archives: February 2014

Suggested reading on China
18 Feb 2014

Suggested reading on China

by Simon Taylor | posted in: China, Economics, International affairs | 2

I was recently asked to recommend blogs and other resources on the Chinese economy. In case other people would find it useful, I list the main ones here. Bear in mind that, not reading Chinese, I’m confined to English sources … Continued

Rekindling the spirit of 1944?
14 Feb 2014

Rekindling the spirit of 1944?

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Finance sector, International affairs | 0

The leader of one of our main international financial institutions argues that we need to remember and learn from the cooperative spirit in which the Bretton Woods international financial system was born in 1944. Unfortunately the creation and later success … Continued

imbalances, IMF, international finance
Getting money right
11 Feb 2014

Getting money right

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Course material, Economics, Finance sector | 1

It must be puzzling and exasperating to the general public that economists still seem so clueless about perhaps the most important and central topic in economic policy, the money system. Yet a lot of economic news is about the problem … Continued

Euro, inflation, money, QE
New evidence on the causes of the Eurozone problems
6 Feb 2014

New evidence on the causes of the Eurozone problems

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Course material, Economics, International affairs | 0

While the US and UK economies are both recovering quite decisively from their post-crisis recessions, the Eurozone is not. And unemployment is at appalling levels in much of “peripheral” Europe, particularly for young people. Current macroeconomic policy consists of low … Continued

Euro, imbalances, macro

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Simon is Management Practice Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. From 2008-2018 he was the first Director of the University of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) degree, and was later the first Director of the University's Global Executive MBA. An economist and former equities analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup, he teaches on financial markets and institutions, infrastructure finance and the world financial system. He is a Fellow in Management at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he is a member of the investment committee, and a research associate of the Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group, where he specialises in nuclear finance.

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