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The beginning of the end of the oil age
7 Apr 2021

The beginning of the end of the oil age

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

Some people who know me don’t believe it, but as a child I wasn’t interested in international politics. But, like most people in Britain in the 1970s, I knew the name of the Saudi oil minister, because he was a … Continued

energy, Geopolitics, global, oil, OPEC, USA
Should oil companies invest in renewable electricity?
14 Feb 2021

Should oil companies invest in renewable electricity?

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Economics, Energy | 4

Oil and gas companies have few skills that are transferable to electricity generation and risk wasting a lot of their shareholders’ money. * “Peak oil” used to refer to supply but in recent years has come to mean the year … Continued

Climate change, energy, oil, renewables, strategy
The oil price and short and long run supply
18 Jan 2015

The oil price and short and long run supply

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Course material, Economics, Energy | 23

The biggest topic in the global economy remains the oil price. It’s notoriously difficult to forecast commodity prices but how can we make sense of what would push the price up or down? A basic demand and supply framework gets … Continued

commodities, markets, oil

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Simon is a member of the finance faculty group at Cambridge Judge Business School. From 2008-18 he was the first Director of the University of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) degree, and he is now 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 Economics at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. His book on nuclear power in the UK was published in March 2016.

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