Leipzig University · Faculty of Business and Economics
Prof. Melanie Krause, Ph.D.
Professorship of “Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Development”
I am a tenured professor working on Urban and Regional Economics, Development Economics, and Income Inequality. My empirical research applies econometrics, geo-spatial data, and machine-learning methods to questions of urban growth and spatial inequality.
Published, inter alia, in
Economic Journal Journal of Development Economics Journal of Urban Economics Journal of Applied Econometrics Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Curriculum & research
Funded research
DFG Research Training Group ECO-N
PI of The Economics of Connected Natural Commons — Atmosphere and Biodiversity, together with colleagues at Leipzig University.
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PI of Shining (New) Light on Regional Inequality, Convergence and Development, jointly with Richard Bluhm and Christian Lessmann.