Johannes M. Bauer

Johannes M. Bauer is a professor in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Since January 2013 he serves as the Chairperson of the Department. He is also affiliated with the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at the university.

Bauer holds a PhD. and M.A. in economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria.

Bauer joined Michigan State University in 1990. From 1993 until 1998, he directed the Institute of Public Utilities and Network Industries at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. Between 2001 and 2009, he held several management positions at the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law. Bauer taught and researched as a visiting professor at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (2000-2001); the University of Constance, Germany (2010); and the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2012).

His research covers a wide range of issues related to the evolution of communications and information industries, in particular the design and effects of public policies towards these industries, and business strategies in network industries, often from a comparative and international perspective. Recent projects dealt with the role of Internet Service Providers in botnet mitigation (with Michel van Eeten, Delft University of Technology), the changing role of the state in telecommunications, and the governance of next-generation communications networks and services, the factors influencing innovation in advanced communication systems, and network neutrality. Funded, among others, by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the OECD, and the ITU, his work is published in journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Information Economics and Policy, Applied Economics, Government Information Quarterly, Communications & Strategies, Telematics & Informatics, and Info.

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