Professor Tom Berglund

 

Professor
Hanken School of Economics
Economicum, Arkadiagatan 7 FI-00100 HELSINGFORS
Floor: 2
Room: B215
+358 (0)40 3521345 (internt 33345)
tom.berglund (at) hanken.fi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Berglund is professor of Applied Microeconomics and the Theory of the Firm, and the program coordinator for the Masters Degree Programme in Corporate Governance at the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki. He is a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and past president of the European Finance Association. Previously he has held visiting positions with the Tilburg University, Netherlands, The European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management, Belgium, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. His research interests have been in financial economics: the impact on large shocks on asset prices, the role of asymmetric information in international investments, and on issues in corporate finance like initial public offerings, and venture capital financing. He has an extensive experience of being board member of various companies. Presently he is member of the board of Sampo Plc.


Teaching

Introduction to economic analysis (in Swedish)
Economics of Organization and Information
Introduction to Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance - A Synthesis
Methods in Empirical Research (Corporate Governance)
Drafting of A Research Plan (Corporate Governance)
Research Seminars in  Corporate Governance

 

Research Interest
Corporate Governance, International Investments, Analysts' recommendations.

 

Selected publications
Introduktion till samhällsekonomisk analys (2007), Söderströms Förlags Ab, ISBN 978-951-52-2505-4, 451 p.

The Entrepreneur ’s Initial Contact with a Venture Capitalist. Why Good Projects may Choose to Wait (2003 ) (together with E. Johansson) in New Venture Investment: Choices and Consequences,  A. Ginsberg and I. Hasan (editors), Elsevier B.V. pp. 42 –52.

What Explains the Difference Between the Futures’ Price and its ”Fair ” Value? Evidence From the Euronext Amsterdam, (2003 ) (together with R.Kabir)  Research in Banking and Finance, Vol.3, JAI Press,  pp 1-11.