RESEARCH TOPICS FOR STUDENTS

Looking for a term paper topic? An MA thesis topic?  Or perhaps even a dissertation topic?  Following are a few areas that I am strongly interested in.  I would be happy to supervise independent study, MA theses, or doctoral dissertations in these areas (and am available to discuss them for term papers etc.)

• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Social and economic effects of AI, algorithms, and big data analytics
• Wireless communications (5G, LPWANs, …) and mobile Internet
• Next-generation networks, services, applications including future Internet
• Governance of advanced communications technologies
• Internationally comparative studies of communications and information industries, services, applications
• Business strategies in communication industries (responses to convergence, pricing, innovation, network firms, …)
• Transformation of the media industries
• Digital entrepreneurship and business strategy in media and culture industries
• Theory and modeling of dynamic adaptive systems and complexity (especially agent-based models)
• These are but a few suggestions; feel free to contact me at bauerj AT msu.edu with your own topics

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria 

• Microeconomics 
• Macroeconomics 
• National Accounting 

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

• Comparative and International Telecommunications 
• Communications and Media Law
• Economics of Telecommunications and Information Industries
• Global Media
• Media Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy

GRADUATE COURSES

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria

• Microeconomics 
• Macroeconomics 
• Public Utility Regulation
• Industrial Organization 
• Economics and Politics of Regulation and Deregulation 
• Public Enterprise Economics 
• Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 

• Ways of Knowing
• Comparative and International Telecommunications
• Economics of Telecommunications Industries
• Law and Policy of the Media
• Telecommunications Policy Analysis 
• Media and Information Economics

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Numerous lectures in many countries on: Broadband Policy; Internet Governance; Digital Transformation; Dynamic Approaches to Regulation; Economic and Legal Principles of Regulation; Incentive Regulation; Spectrum Policy; Innovation Policy; Rethinking of Communication Policy.