March 2014 – Simon Taylor's Blog

7 Mar 2014

Improving prospects for market-based reform in China

by Simon Taylor | posted in: China, Economics | 0

Ahead of attending the Cambridge-Beijing Forum on market reforms in China, hosted by Cambridge Judge Business School next month in Beijing, I thought I should check the official Chinese government position. The Chinese Premier (head of the State Council, loosely … Continued

1 Mar 2014

Meeting Merton

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Economics, Financial products, MFin | 2

It is rare to meet your heroes. I wouldn’t exactly describe Professor Robert C. Merton as one of my heroes – I’m not sure I have any heroes actually – but he is somebody I admire greatly. He is probably … Continued

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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