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Jan Kramer

Jan Krämer is a professor of Information Systems and holds the chair of Internet and Telecommunications Business at the University of Passau, Germany. He is also a Academic Co-Director at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), a Brussels-based think tank, and a member of the European AI Alliance. Previously, he headed a research group on telecommunications markets at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he also obtained a diploma degree in Business and Economics Engineering with a focus on computer science, telematics and operations research, and a Ph.D. in Economics, both with distinction. He was a visiting student and scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at Boston University, respectively. Professor Krämer pursues an interdisciplinary research approach by combining theoretical and empirical methods from economics—predominantly game-theoretic modeling an economic laboratory experiments—with insights from computer science, psychology and law. His current research interest includes the regulation of telecommunications and Internet markets, as well as digital ecosystems and data-driven business models.