Curriculum Vitae for Joacim Tåg
Updated: January 23, 2015
ContactandPersonalDetails
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Box 55665
SE-102 15 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 665 4524
Fax: +46 (0)8 665 4599
Email: joacim.tag@ifn.se
Work web: http://www.ifn.se/joacimt
Personal web: http://www.joacimtag.se/
Born: February 11, 1981. Finland.
Nationality: Swedish/Finnish
Civil Status: Married. One daughter.
Currentposition
20112008-
Program Director, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm.
Research Fellow, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm.
Areasofspecialization
Finance, Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization.
Appointmentsheld
2006-2008
2005
Graduate School Fellow, Finnish Doctoral Program in Economics, Helsinki.
Teaching Assistant, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki.
Education
2005-2008
2001-2005
Doctor of Science in Economics, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki.
BSc and MSc in Economics, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki.
ResearchVisits
2012
2012
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 21-27, Urbana-Champaign.
Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, April 12-20, Rome.
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2010
2008
2008
2006-2007
Stern School of Business, New York University, February 14-28, New York.
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), January 1-September 1, Stockholm.
Microsoft Research Redmond. July 30-August 7, Seattle.
Stern School of Business, New York University, August 1-July 30, New York.
TeachingExperience
Lund University, Lund.
2013
Lecturer, Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance Theory, PhD level course.
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm.
2010
Lecturer, 4301-Corporate Finance Theory, MSc level course.
Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki.
2008
2008
2007
2007
2006
2005
2005
2004
Teaching Assistant, Economics of Strategy.
Teaching Assistant, Strategic Competition.
Teaching Assistant, Microeconomic Analysis
Teaching Assistant, Strategic Competition.
Teaching Assistant, Economics of Strategy.
Teaching Assistant, Economics of Strategy.
Teaching Assistant, Principles of Economics.
Teaching Assistant, Principles of Economics.
GrantsandAwards
2009
2008
2006
2005
2005
Society of Swedish Literature in Finland prize for PhD Thesis entitled ”Essays on Platforms: Business Strategies, Regulation and Policy in Telecommunications, Media and
Technology Industries”.
NET Institute Summer Research Grant with Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson for
”Entrepreneurial Innovations in Network Industries”.
Hanken Foundation Grant for studies as a visiting scholar at Leonard N. Stern School
of Business, New York University.
ASLA-Fulbright Grant for Graduate Study for visit to NYU/Stern 2006/2007.
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Master’s Thesis Award for master’s thesis entitled ”TwoPeriod Switching Cost Models with an Application to the Finnish Market for Online
Real Estate Advertisement”.
Referee
Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, Information
Economics and Policy, Information Systems Research, International Journal of Indus2
trial Organization, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Media
Economics, National Science Foundation, Review of Network Economics, Small Business Economics, Telecommunications Policy, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
ConferencesOrganized
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
IFN Stockholm Conference: Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance, 13-14
June 2013, Vaxholm, Sweden (with: Lars Persson)
IFN Stockholm Conference: Globalization, Organization and the Ownership of Firms,
14-15 June 2012, Vaxholm, Sweden (with: Shon Ferguson and Lars Persson)
IFN Stockholm Conference: Entrepreneurship, Firm Growth and Ownership Change
9-10 June 2011, Vaxholm, Sweden (with: Lars Persson)
IFN Stockholm Conference: The Economics of Innovation, Ownership, and Competition Policy 3-4 June 2010, Vaxholm, Sweden (with: Lars Persson)
IFN Stockholm Conference: The Economics of Ownership, Organization and Industrial Development 10-11 September 2009, Vaxholm, Sweden (with: Magnus Henrekson
and Lars Persson)
Articles
Published in Journals
2014
2013
2013
2012
2010
2009
2009
2009
Norbäck, PJ, Persson, L and J. Tåg 2014. Acquisitions, Entry, and Innovation in Oligopolistic Network Industries. International Journal of Industrial Organization 37: 1-12.
Tåg, Joacim. 2013. Production Hierarchies in Sweden. Economics Letters 121: 210-213.
Lerner, J. and J. Tåg, 2013, Institutions and Venture Capital, Industrial and Corporate
Change 22: 153-182.
Economides, N. and J. Tåg, 2012, Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market
Analysis, Information Economics and Policy 24: 91-104.
Persson, L. and Tåg, J., 2010, Book Review: Antitrust and Regulation in the EU and
US: Legal and Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature 48: 1051-1053
Tåg, J., 2009, Paying to Remove Advertisements, Information Economics and Policy 2: 245252
Tåg, J., 2009, Competing Platforms and Third Party Application Developers, Communication & Strategies 74: 95-114.
Tåg, J., 2009, Policies och Regleringar i Telekommunikations-, Media- och Teknologiindustrierna, Ekonomiska Samfundets Tidsskrift, 2/09: 83-87
Published in Books
2013
Economides, N. and J. Tåg, 2013, Net Neutrality and Net Management Regulation:
Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts, Research Handbook
on Governance of the Internet. Edward Elgar (Ian Brown, ed.).
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2013
2012
Tåg, J. 2013. Riskkapital till entreprenörer: Vilken roll spelar finansmarknaderna, skattepolitiken och arbetsmarknadsregleringarna? In Swedish Economic Forum Report 2013:
Institutioner och Incitament för Innovation. Entreprenörskapsforum.
Tåg, J., 2012, The Real Effects of Private Equity Buyouts, The Oxford Handbook of Private
Equity. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Douglas Cumming, ed.).
Books and Monographs
2008
Tåg, J., 2008, Essays on Platforms: Business Strategies, Regulation and Policy in Telecommunications, Media and Technology Industries (Monograph, PhD Thesis), Economics
and Society, Hanken School of Economics.
Working Papers Submitted to Journals
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
Tangerås, T. and Joacim Tåg. 2014. International Network Competition. IFN Working
Paper No. 1005.
Rider, C.I., P. Thompson, A. Kacperczyk and J. Tåg. 2013. Experience and Entrepreneurship. IFN Working Paper No. 970.
Tåg, J, T. Åstebro and P. Thompson. 2013. Hierarchies, the Small Firm Effect, and
Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish Microdata. IFN Working Paper No. 954.
Norbäck, PJ, L. Persson and J. Tåg. 2013. Acquisitions, Ownership Efficiency, and the
Tax Shield of Debt. Mimeo.
Norbäck, PJ, L. Persson and J. Tåg. 2013. Buying to Sell: Private Equity Buyouts and
Industrial Restructuring. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 8992.
Olsson, M. and J. Tåg. 2012. Private Equity and Employees. IFN Working Paper No. 906.
Work in Progress
2014
2014
2014
Åstebro, T., D. T. Robinson, and J. Tåg. 2014. ”Entrepreneurship and Job Reallocation”.
Ljungqvist, A., L. Persson, and J. Tåg. 2014. ”What If... The Stock Market Disappears?
On The Economic Consequences of Excessive Delistings”.
Baziki, S, P-J Norbäck, L. Persson, and J. Tåg. 2014. ”International Restructuring:
Cross-border Buyouts and Acquisitions”.
ConferencesandTalks
Invited Presentations
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2012
Lund University. February 18, 2014. Lund.
Uppsala University. March 3, 2014. Uppsala.
Statistics Sweden. January 21, 2014. Örebro.
Swedish Economic Forum. November 27, 2013. Stockholm.
RATIO. November 20, 2013. Stockholm.
Norwegian School of Economics. October 23, 2013. Bergen.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. April 25, 2012. Champaign.
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2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2008
2007
Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. April 16, 2012. Rome.
University of Gothenburg. March 27, 2012. Gothenburg.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology. 3 November 3, 2011. Stockholm.
Swedish Institute for Financial Research (SIFR). September 22, 2011. Stockholm.
The ASSA Meetings 2011. January 6, 2011. Denver.
Economics Seminar at the DG Competition in the European Commission. October
27, 2010. Brussels.
Stockholm School of Economics, Department of Economics. September 3, 2010. Stockholm.
ParisTech Telecom Economics Seminar. June 17, 2010. Paris.
Microsoft Research Redmond.August 5, 2008. Redmond.
Research Institute of Industrial Economics. December 3, 2007. Stockholm.
Presentations
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
SIFR Conference on: The Financial Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(co-presenter). August 22, 2014. Stockholm.
IFN Brownbag Seminar. March 31, 2014. Stockholm.
IFN Open House. March 26, 2014. Stockholm.
Finance, Organizations and Markets Research Group Workshop (co-presenter). December 14, 2013. Los Angeles.
CEPR Workshop on the Economics of Entrepreneurship. November 16, 2013. Amsterdam.
European Economic Association and the Econometric Society European Meeting, August 28, 2013. Gothenburg.
IFN Stockholm Conference: Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance. June 13,
2013. Vaxholm.
Swedish House of Finance Workshop. November 27, 2012. Stockholm.
39th Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association. August 16, 2012. Copenhagen.
IFN Stockholm Conference: Globalization, Organization and the Ownership of Firms.
June 14, 2012. Vaxholm.
The First Knut Wicksell Conference in Finance. December 2, 2011. Lund.
Conference on the Economics of ICT. November 1, 2011. Paris.
National Conference of Swedish Economists. September 18, 2011. Uppsala.
38th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics. September 2, 2011. Stockholm.
European Economic Association and the Econometric Society European Meeting. August 26, 2011. Olso.
International Economic Association Sixteenth World Congress. July 6, 2011. Beijing.
Entreprenörskapsforum/IFN workshop on Entrepreneurship, Industrial Development
and Growth. June 19, 2011. Vaxholm.
IFN Stockholm Conference: Entrepreneurship, Firm Growth, and Ownership Change.
June 9, 2011. Vaxholm.
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2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
2005
National Conference of Swedish Economists. October 1, 2010. Lund.
8th ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies. July 2, 2010. Mannheim.
IFN Stockholm Conference: The Economics of Innovation, Ownership, and Competition Policy. June 3, 2010. Vaxholm.
IFN Stockholm Conference: The Economics of Ownership, Organization and Industrial Development. September 10, 2009. Vaxholm.
36th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics. September 5, 2009. Ljubljana.
European Economic Association and the Econometric Society European meeting. August 25, 2009. Barcelona.
CAF Summer Research Conference 2009 in Finance. July 18, 2009, Hyderabad.
The 11th Annual SNEE Conference European Integration in Swedish Economic Research. May 28, 2009. Mölle, Sweden.
NET Institute Conference on Network Economics. May 8, 2009. New York.
The 7th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference. April 5, 2009. Boston.
Ung Forskardag. January 27, 2009. Örebro.
IFN Brownbag. January 19, 2009. Stockholm.
FDPE Microeconomics and Industrial Organization Workshop. December 15, 2008.
Helsinki.
The 36th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
(co-presenter). September 24, 2008. Arlington.
The 34th EARIE Conference. September 6, 2008. Toulouse.
6th ZEW Conference on the Economics of ICT. July 5, 2008. Mannheim.
FDPE Microeconomics and Industrial Organization Workshop. June 5, 2008. Helsinki.
FDPE Microeconomics and Industrial Organization Workshop. December 17, 2007.
Helsinki.
HECER Applied Microeconomics Seminar. October 24, 2007. Helsinki.
33rd EARIE Conference. September 8, 2007. Valencia.
NYU/CeDER Workshop on the Economics of Information Technology. June 20 2006.
New York.
FDPE Microeconomics and Industrial Organization Workshop. May 29, 2006. Helsinki.
FDPE Microeconomics and Industrial Organization Workshop. December 12, 2005.
Helsinki.
Discussant/Participant
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2009
Bank of Finland/CEPR Conference on Entrepreneurial Finance, Innovation, and Growth.
October 23, 2014. Helsinki. SHOF PhD Student Workshop. November 12, 2013.
Stockholm.
4th HEC Conference on Entrepreneurship. October 4, 2013. Paris
SHOF PhD Student Workshop. September 22, 2012. Stockholm.
CEPR-ST Gallen Finance and the Real Economy. August 3, 2012. St Gallen.
Tillväxt, företag och entreprenörskap. October 9, 2009. Stockholm.
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2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
2005
2005
2005
SIFR Conference on the Governance of Financial Intermediaries. August 28, 2009.
Stockholm.
Google Workshop on Konkurrens, ny teknik och framtidsfrågor. March 26, 2009.
Stockholm.
IFN Workshop on Privatization. June 16, 200. Vaxholm.
IFN Nordic Workshop on Electricity Economics. June 9, 2008. Saltsjöbaden.
NYU/NET Institute Conference on Network Economics. April 18 2008. New York.
SIFR Workshop on The Economics of the Private Equity Market. August 30, 2007.
Stockholm.
NYU/NET Institute Conference on Network Economics. April 20, 2007. New York.
The 2007 International Industrial Organization Conference. April14, 2007. Savannah.
The 2007 Annual Convention of the Allied Social Science Associations. January 5, 2007.
Chicago.
4th Workshop on Media Economics. November 17, 2006. Washington.
NYU IO-DAY. September 15, 2006. New York.
GESY Summer School Bronnbach 2005: Industrial Organization: Theory, Econometrics and Anti Trust Policy. August 26 to September 5, 2005. Wertheim.
ENCORE Summer School 2005 - Graduate level. July 18-22, 2005. Amsterdam,.
MBA Teachers’ Program. Helsinki.
Media
Policy seminars
2014
2013
2013
2012
Entreprenören som försvann?, IFN Policyseminarium, June 17, 2014, Stockholm.
Riskkapitaliserna bygger landet, Timbro, September 3, 2013, Stockholm.
Riskkapitalet i praktiken - så påverkas företag och samhälle, SNS Måndagsklubb, March
12, 2013, Stockholm.
Riskkapital och Beskattning, IFN Frukostseminarium, April 3, 2012. Stockholm.
Opinion Pieces
2015
2012
2011
2011
Olsson, M. and J. Tåg, Private equity: transformation or tax evasion? IFN Newsletter.
January 2015.
Lernar, J. and J. Tåg, Mer måste göras nu för framtida tillväxt. Svenska Dagbladet, July
13, 2012.
Jordahl, H. and J. Tåg. Riskkapitalbolag är bra ägare. Svenska Dagbladet, November 23,
2011.
Tåg, J. Utköpsbolagens roll i näringslivet. IFN Nyhetsbrev. August 22, 2011.
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Profiles, Interviews, and Mentions
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2009
2009
Wettergrund, S., Riskkapitalister - onda utsugare eller goda affärsänglar, Connoisseur,
December 2015.
Jacobsson, I., Runda Banken - ragga pengarna!, Råd & Rön, January 22, 2014.
Miljardregn över Nordic Capital. Dagens Industri Lunch Nyheter, November 22, 2013.
Ottoson, M., Kaos om de flyr välfärden. Dagens Samhälle, November 21, 2013.
Fremin, L.,Svensk bingo nere för räkning. Dagens Nyheter, August 10, 2013.
Dalqvist, A. and P. Nordström, Entreprenör - Jakten påkapitalet: vem satsar pådin affärsidé? April 5, 2013.
Vad händer när välfärden får gåmed vinst? Vetenskapsradion, January 18, 2013.
Wallenius, R. Faxanders flyttlass är påplats. Gefle Dagblad, October 15, 2012.
Olsson, E., Expert: Svårt för Sverige att hävda sig. Metro, August 24, 2012.
Sverenius, T., Oklara jobbeffekter av riskkapitalism, Arbetsmarknaden, Mars 30, 2012.
Harrysson, J., Riskkapital tryggar anställningen, Gefle Dagblad, Mars 29, 2012.
Törnwall, M., Säkrare att jobba påköpt bolag. Dagens Industri, Mars 26, 2012.
Karlberg, L.A., Forskare: Mix bluffar om jobben, Affärsvärden, December 23, 2011.
Carlén, T., Riskkapitalister kan fly landet efter rättstvist, Svenska Dagbladet, December
24, 2011.
Törnwall, M. Forskare: Riskbolagen skapar inte fler jobb, Dagens Industri, December
23, 2011.
Sundin, N. Ovanko ägs av skandalbolag, Gefle Dagblad, November 11, 2011.
Sundin, N. Flytten gör Sandvik attraktivare, Gefle Dagblad, September 5, 2011.
Bandyopadhyay, S., Cheng, H.K., Guo H., Holladay, J.S. and Tåg, J., Building a better
net?, Politico, September 22, 2010.
Wallström, M. Nätneutralitet lönar sig, Computer Sweden, October 6, 2009.
Henrekson, M and J. Tåg, Henrekson & Tåg vill höja teveavgiften, Arena #5 2009.
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