Matthias Bauer
Matthias Bauer is the author of several studies, economic impact assessments and policy briefs in the fields of international trade, digital markets, the regulation of data, innovation, and intellectual property rights. He is regularly consulted by private and public sector organisations on a broad range of policy issues ranging from impact analysis to strategic advice.
Bauer grew up in Eastern Germany. He is an alumni of the US international visitor leadership program (IVLP). He studied business administration at the University of Hull, UK, and economics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree after joining the Bundesbank graduate programme on the “Foundations of Global Financial Markets and Financial Stability”.
Before joining ECIPE, Matthias Bauer was the Coordinator of International Political Economy at the international cooperation division of Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin. He previously held positions at DekaBank, UBS, Mercedes-Benz China, and worked as a start-up and business development consultant. Matthias is a member of Tutwa Europe’s economic policy expert network. He is also the co-founder of the German-based Institute for Digital Education (IfODiB).
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From Digital Tax Symbolism to Meaningful Reform: Europe’s Substantial VAT Gap as a Source of Untapped Fiscal Capacity
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyEurope does not suffer from a lack of tax instruments – it suffers from too many. Over the past decade, new layers of corporate, digital, and global tax rules have been added to an already complex...
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Cloud Resilience and Security: Why Exit, Portability, and Lifecycle Design Matter
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe future of computing points to cloud services remaining deeply embedded across sectors. As cloud technologies converge with edge networks and connected devices, resilience and security are no...
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100 Leaders in Europe’s Economies: Benchmarking Investment, Innovation and Impact in Europe
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyEurope’s competitiveness is built on openness, interdependence, and global embeddedness. Its prosperity depends not on how many firms it “owns”, but on how many choose Europe as a place to...
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What About Us? Consumer Response to the Digital Markets Act
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe Digital Markets Act (DMA) was introduced as a landmark piece of EU legislation to change how consumers interact or engage with large online platforms. By restraining the power of the so-called...
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Implementing the Digital Markets Act Policy Recommendations for Competitive, Innovative and Trusted Digital Ecosystems
ECIPE studies, "Cybersecurity at risk: How the EU’s Digital Markets Act could undermine security across mobile operating systems" and "EU export of regulatory overreach: The case of the Digital...
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Cloud tech outages: how the EU plans to bolster its digital infrastructure
ECIPE Insight, "Europe’s Cloud Debate Is Looking the Wrong Way: It’s Not Concentration – It’s Lock-In" referenced in a piece by the...
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The Role of ‘European Preference’ In Europe’s Economic Strategy
The study ''Openness as Strength: The Win-Win in EU-US Digital Services Trade" cited in CERRE's Issue...
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EU IAA leaves automotive manufacturers in lurch over equivalence
By: Matthias BauerMatthias Bauer comments on the substantial legal complexities embedded in the EU's proposed Industrial Accelerator...
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From Legal Fragmentation to Scale: Competitive Harmonisation as Europe’s Edge in the Global Economy
By: Matthias BauerMatthias Bauer writes an article on how Europe’s global economic and political influence is waning, with its share of world GDP forecast to drop from 15% today to 9% by 2050 for The Budapest...
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Why Brussels Should Be Applying to Switzerland Instead
By: Matthias BauerMatthias Bauer writes for Schweizer Monat that democracies are subtly undermined by the unchecked growth of rules and agencies, except in Switzerland, where government remains accountable to its...
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Why Cutting Bureaucracy Is a Near-Impossible Mission in a Representative Democracy
By: Matthias BauerMatthias Bauer writes an op-ed for the Brussels Report on how efforts to cut European bureaucracy fail because entrenched industries and professions profit from regulatory...
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Niemiecki ekonomista: Przez wiele lat żyliśmy ponad stan
By: Matthias BauerMatthias Bauer discusses Germany's economic stagnation, investment gaps, regulatory challenges, and calls for greater European integration and harmonisation to boost competitiveness and address key...
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CEE Consumer Attitudes Toward Parasite SEO & Search Engine Responsibility
By: Matthias BauerA study produced with the collaboration of European Public Policy Partnership (EPPP) on European consumers wanting search engines to prioritise content quality and user protection, not publisher...
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The IP Compass: A Strategic Guide for EU Policymakers Navigating Innovation and Global Competition
Case study by Matthias Bauer and Dyuti Pandya for the International Property Rights Index 2025 commissioned by the Property Rights...
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Scaling Investment and Innovation: A passporting framework for EU telecommunication
Matthias Bauer and Dyuti Pandya write about how CoO passporting boosts EU telecoms, reducing fragmentation, enhancing investment and competitiveness for the report "Why Europe needs a true Digital...
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New Regulations in Europe’s Digital Economy: Design, Structure, Trade and Economic Effects
ECIPE report on EU digital regulations published by the Confederations of Swedish...
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Is the DMA the Right Tool to Promote Competition in Cloud Computing?
By: Matthias BauerMatthias Bauer speaks during a panel at the 2026 European Digital Competition Day organised by...
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Health Policy Conference
By: Matthias BauerMatthias Bauer participates as a panellist at Euractiv's Advocacy Lab conference on fostering Europe’s health...
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Lines on a Map Are Now Lines of Power and Contestation | Budapest Global Dialogue 2025
By: Matthias BauerMatthias Bauer joins a high-level panel exploring how resurging borders reshape globalisation by the Observer Research Foundation, with a focus on EU digital sovereignty and economic...
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Europas Traum von der digitalen Souveränität
By: Matthias BauerMatthias Bauer talks about Europe’s reliance on American IT providers posing geopolitical risks via...