Prof. Astrid Krenz

Associate Fellow

Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)

About

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

Publications

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