capital markets – Simon Taylor's Blog

1 Nov 2012

Fixing the market? Stabilising the price of IPO stocks

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Course material, Financial products | 0

Financial markets set the prices of assets such as stocks and bonds through the interaction of demand and supply. Deliberate attempts to fix or distort those prices, termed “market abuse” in the EU, are therefore usually illegal. But there 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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