People

Erik is a PhD student in economics at Örebro University and Ratio. Most recently, he worked as an analyst at Growth Analysis (government agency), analysing and reporting on trade, innovation policy, venture capital, entrepreneurship and evaluations of public suppport to enterprises. Erik has previously studied at the universities in Uppsala and Stockholm as well as at Harvard University. During Spring 2025, he will be visiting MIT, USA.

Mark G is a postdoctoral researcher in economics. He received his PhD from Linköping University in 2022. In his previous research, Mark G has analysed the hiring process of organisations by using field experiments and the role of economic uncertainty on unemployment flows.

Holger G. is a professor and the head of research area “Global Division of Labour” at the highly ranked Kiel Institute for the World Economy and a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.

Mark is a PhD student in economics at Aarhus University and Ratio. Most recently, he worked as an analyst at the headoffice of Lidl. Mark has previously studied at the universities in Örebro, Sweden, and Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Spain, as well as conducted a field study in Zambia as part of his studies.

Farrukh is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Lund University. His research focuses on inference for stochastic models and modern machine learning approaches, applied across various domains. He specializes in using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to analyze diverse datasets, aiming to improve predictive modeling and risk assessment.

Franziska is a professor in IT with a background in software engineering for agentbased ystems, primarily related to simulation. She has a broad overview of AI, having taught in computer science for almost a decade. She was programme and local chair of diverse conferences in the area of multiagent systems at the international and national levels. She was also a board member of EURAMAS (European Association for Multiagent Systems) and a member of the editorial board of the German AI Journal. She will be General Chair of the German AI Conference 2020.

Michael is associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, and member of the Research Centre for Firms and Industry Dynamics (FIND). He is doing theoretical and empirical research in international economics and labor economics. In particular, he investigates the impact of globalization and/or automation on individual workers, firm performance and their internal organization, and aggregate implications, e.g. welfare and economy wide inequality.

Hildegunn is a professor at Örebro University, Sweden, and a research professor at NUPI in Norway. She and Magnus Lodefalk co-direct the AI-Econ Lab. Hildegunn works on trade, trade policy and technology issues, focusing on the interaction between trade policy, trade, technology and labour market adjustments. She also serves as an expert at the OECD Working Party on AI Governance. She has worked in the OECD where she has led the work on trade and trade policy in the services sectors. Previous work experience also includes research and teaching positions at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, the University of Bergen, SNF, University of Western Cape, WTO, and visiting scholar to Stanford University.

Michael works as professor of Econometrics at the University of St. Gallen since 1998. Since 2025, he is a Guest Professor at Örebro University. In 1994, he received his PhD in Economics and Econometrics at the University of Mannheim. He co-heads the Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research (SEW) of the University of St. Gallen. His methodological interests are in causal machine learning and optimal decision making (policy learning). Most of his applied work is in labour and sports economics. He has published in the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Journal of the European Economic Association among many others. He is a Fellow of the German Academy of Science Leopoldina (Halle) and the Center for Economic Policy Reseach (CEPR, London).

Magnus is an associate professor and co-director of the AI-Econ Lab. For more than a decade, he has worked with comprehensive longitudinal register data for Swedish firms and workers, e.g., studying structural changes in the form of servicification of firms, and technological change and adoption, as well as the effects of such phenomena on firm performance and labour markets. Magnus currently leads a project for the Ministry of Finance on AI in the public sector and serves on the advisory board of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education. Magnus also has broad experience of analysis of international trade and trade policy, with a focus on the WTO. He was previously a co-director of the EU-funded transnational Trade and Investment in Services Network. He has also headed capacity building in the trade area as well as lectured extensively on issues related to international trade and trade policy. Between 2003 and 2014, he worked at the National Board of Trade (Kommerskollegium) in Sweden.

Martin is a researcher at the Machine Perception and Interaction Lab at the AASS Research Center at Örebro University. He received his PhD in Information Technology in 2015. His research interest is in machine learning, deep learning and representational learning from raw sensory data.

Natália is an associate professor at University of Minho, Portugal. She is a labour economist with extensive experience in analysing labour earnings and work organisation and has published in top journals, e.g., Labour Economics.

Giuseppe is a a postdoctoral researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Berlin and a Research Associate of the Berlin School of Economics at Humboldt University. His research focuses on topics within the fields of labour economics and international trade. In particular, he studies the transformations due to the evolving nature of work with reference to phenomena like technological change and globalisation.

Sarah is an assistant professor in economics at Aarhus University, Denmark, and a  Fellow of the Research Centre for Firms and Industry Dynamics (FIND). She is also affiliated with the Ratio Research Institute, Sweden. Her research lies at the intersection of international trade and labour economics, with a current focus on the effects of globalisation on labour market outcomes.

Yaroslav is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University. His research focuses on labour economics, in particular on the labour market effects of technological change and on mass layoffs, as well as on urban economics.

Monisha is a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Antwerpen, Belgium. Her research focuses on AI, exploring technology adoption, firm strategies, market structure, and labor market outcomes. She uses economic modeling, econometrics, and machine learning to study the dynamics of AI. Monisha has studied in the Netherlands, Germany, and India and recently analyzed AI-driven changes in the Belgian and German labor markets.

Fredric is an industry-employed doctoral student in informatics at Örebro University School of Business and an analyst at the Swedish Agency for Digital Government. Fredric research is about measuring and identifying the progress of adopting digital technologies in business activities in the public sector.