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17 Dec 2025

Key finance concepts: asymmetric information

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Economics, Key finance concepts, Uncategorized | 0

Asymmetric information is where two people doing business together have different levels of information about something important to the transaction, meaning that one may be able to take advantage of the other. It is very common in economic life. * Information is … 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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