Prof. Melanie Krause, Ph.D.

Research

Publications

• The Millennium Peak in Club Convergence - A New Look at Distributional Changes in the Wealth of Nations. Journal of Applied Econometrics 32, 2017, pp.621-642.
  Link to article. Online appendix. Link to data archive. Draft version.

• Parametric Lorenz Curves and the Modality of the Income Density Function, Review of Income and Wealth 60, 2014, pp.905-929.
  Link to article. Draft version.

Working Papers

• Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development,
  joint work with Richard Bluhm. UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2018-041.

• Convergence vs. The Middle Income Trap: The Case of Global Soccer
  joint work with Stefan Szymanski. ECINEQ Working Paper 2017-453.

Work in Progress

• Regional Convergence at the County Level: The Role of Commuters,
  joint work with Sebastian Kripfganz.

• Growth and Spatial Inequality,
  joint work with Richard Bluhm and Christian Lessmann.

• Population, Light, and the Size Distribution of Cities,
  joint work with Christian Düben.

• Rising Mean Incomes for Whom?,
  joint work with Liang Frank Shao.

• When is Inequality Detrimental to Growth? - Perspectives from a Novel Cross-Country Approach,
  joint work with Michael Binder.

• Solving the MAUP in Regional Convergence Models,
  joint work with Richard Bluhm and Jesús Crespo Cuaresma.

Smaller Notes

• Corrigendum to "Elliptical Lorenz Curves" [J. Econom. 40 (1989) 327 - 338], Journal of Econometrics 174, 2013, p.44. Link to article. Download draft version.