Research interests:
Industrial organization, corporate finance, entrepreneurship.
Among the questions that Joacim Tåg tries to answer with his research:
- How do private equity buyouts affect society?
- How can the government encourage innovation and entrepreneurship?
- How should the telecommunications industry be regulated?
New research
Production Hierarchies in Sweden
Joacim Tåg
Joacims research interests lie in the intersections between industrial organization, corporate finance, and entrepreneurship. He is particularly interested in corporate restructuring, ownership changes, financial constraints, and the role played by venture capital and private equity firms in the industrial development process. Joacim has also worked on competition policy and regulation in the telecommunications and media industry.
Working Papers
Tåg, Joacim. 2013. "Production Hierarchies in Sweden", IFN Working Paper No. 963 [RePec]
Tåg, Joacim, Thomas Åstebro and Peter Thompson. 2013. "Hierarchies, the Small Firm Effect, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish Microdata." IFN Working Paper No. 954 [RePEc]
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan, Lars Persson and Joacim Tåg. 2013. "Acquisitions, Ownership Efficiency, and the Tax Shield of Debt." [Preliminary version, old version: RePEc]
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan, Lars Persson and Joacim Tåg. 2013. "Buying to Sell: Private Equity Buyouts and Industrial Restructuring." CEPR Discussion Paper No 8992 [RePEc] [Latest version]
Olsson, Martin and Joacim Tåg. 2012. "Private Equity and Employees." IFN Working Paper No. 906 [RePEc]
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan, Lars Persson and Joacim Tåg. 2011. "Acquisitions, Entry and Innovation in Network Industries." IFN Working Paper No. 867 [RePEc]
Publications in International Journals
Lerner, Josh and Joacim Tåg. 2013. "Institutions and Venture Capital." Industrial and Corporate Change 22: 153–182. [Download]
Economides, Nicholas and Joacim Tåg. 2012. "Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis." Information Economics and Policy 24: 91-104 [RePEc]
Tåg, Joacim. 2009. "Paying to Remove Advertisements." Information Economics and Policy 21: 245-252. [RePEc]
Tåg, Joacim. 2009. "Competing Platforms and Third Party Application Developers." Communication & Strategies 74: 95-114. [RePEc]
Book Chapters and Other Publications
Economides, Nicholas and Joacim Tåg. 2013. "Net Neutrality and Net Management Regulation: Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts." In Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet, edited by Ian Brown. Edward Elgar. [RePEc]
Tåg, Joacim. 2012. "The Real Effects of Private Equity Buyouts." In The Oxford Handbook of Private Equity, edited by Douglas Cumming. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [RePEc]
Persson, Lars and Joacim Tåg. 2010. "Book Review: Antitrust and Regulation in the EU and US: Legal and Economic Perspectives." Journal of Economic Literature 48: 1051-1053
Tåg, Joacim. 2009. "Policies och Regleringar i Telekommunikations-, Media- och Teknologiindustrierna." Ekonomiska Samfundets Tidsskrift (2/09): 83-87
Tåg, Joacim. 2008. "Essays on Platforms: Business Strategies, Regulation and Policy in Telecommunications, Media and Technology Industries." Economics and Society, PhD diss, Hanken School of Economics.