Background
I have recently started a position as Professor of Economics at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) in the Department of Economics.
Before, I was a Research Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre at the University of Sussex. I did my PhD in Economics at the University of Goettingen, and studied Economics and Statistics at the University of Bielefeld and at Purdue University. I was a Marie Curie Junior Research Fellow at Durham University and a visiting researcher at Monash University, College of William and Mary, and the Universite de Fribourg.
In my research, I am interested in analysing the interrelations between an increasing degree of digitalisation and automation (robots, AI), and firm dynamics (such as location choices and productivity performance), I am conducting Big Data analyses and I am analysing the Gig economy, regional disparities, innovation, the impact for labour markets, economic inequality, and international trade.
Research Interests
- Digitalisation, Robots, Artificial Intelligence
- Big Data and Methodology
- Gig economy
- Economic Inequality and Implications for the Labour Market
- Firm Performance, Regional Economic Development, and Innovation
Recent journal articles
Automation and the Fall and Rise of the Servant Economy
Krenz, A., Strulik, H. (2022) Online - Researchgate.net
Robots, Reshoring, and the Lot of Low-Skilled Workers
Krenz, A., Prettner, K., Strulik, H. (2021), European Economic Review
Other publications
Journal articles
Robots, Reshoring, and the Lot of Low-Skilled Workers, 2021, with K. Prettner and H. Strulik, European Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103744
Quantifying Reshoring at the Macroeconomic Level – Measurement and Applications, 2021, with H. Strulik, Growth and Change. https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12513
The Benefits of Remoteness – Digital Mobility Data, Regional Road Infrastructure, and COVID-19 Infections, 2021, with H. Strulik, German Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1515/ger-2020-0068
The Impact of Menstruation Hygiene Management on Work Absenteeism of Women in Burkina Faso, 2021, with H. Strulik, Economics and Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101067
Unsupervised Document Classification integrating Web Scraping, One-Class SVM and LDA Topic Modelling, 2021, with B. Saefken, A. Thielmann, C. Weisser, Journal of Applied Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2021.1919063
One-Class Support Vector Machine and LDA Topic Model Integration – Evidence for AI Patents, 2021, with A. Thielmann and C. Weisser, Studies in Computational Intelligence 981, Soft Computing: Biomedical and Related Applications, Editors N.H. Phuong, V. Kreinovich, Springer Nature.
The Effects of Absorptive Capacity on Innovation Performance – A Cross-Country Perspective, 2020, with R. Harris and J. Moffat, Journal of Common Market Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13108
Blog articles & media
Blog articles:
In the media:
Ostsee-Zeitung, 2021: MV hinkt bei der Digitalisierung hinterher
Harvard Business Manager, 2019: Reshoring: Von Fachkraeften und Robotern
Business Day, 2019: Trump‘s job plan would benefit robots
Der Spiegel, 2018: China war eine Fehlentscheidung
Digit researchers at the SASE 2022 conference
Digit researchers discussed their work at the SASE cofnerence, 9-11 July 2022 in Amsterdam.