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Prof. Melanie Krause, Ph.D.
Leipzig University
Grimmaische Straße 12
04109 Leipzig, Germany
+49 341 97 33796
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Prof. Melanie Krause, Ph.D.
I am a tenured Professor at Leipzig University,
holding the Professorship for "Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Development".
Before that, I was a Junior Professor of Economics at Hamburg University.
Welcome to my personal homepage!
My work focuses on Urban and Regional Economics, Development Economics, Income Inequality.
In my data-driven empirical analysis, I use Geo-Spatial Data and Machine Leaning Methods.
Research grant (2017-2020) by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the project Shining (New) Light on Regional Inequality, Convergence and Development, jointly with Richard Bluhm and Christian Lessmann. Click here for more information.
Curriculum Vitae
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Research
- Publications
- The Emperor's Geography - City Locations, Nature and Institutional Optimization,
joint work with Christian Düben, Economic Journal 133, 2023, pp.1067-1105. Link to article. Online appendix. Working Paper version
- The Emperor's Geography - City Locations, Nature and Institutional Optimization,
- Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development,
joint work with Richard Bluhm, Journal of Development Economics 157, 2022, article 102880. Link to article. Online appendix. Working Paper version
- Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development,
- Air Pollution in an Urban World: A Global View on Density, Cities, and Emissions,
joint work with David Castells-Quintana and Elisa Dienesch, Ecological Economics 189, 2021, article 107153. Link to article. Working Paper version
- Air Pollution in an Urban World: A Global View on Density, Cities, and Emissions,
- The Urbanising Force of Global Warming: The Role of Climate Change in the Spatial Distribution of Population,
joint work with David Castells-Quintana and Tom McDermott, Journal of Economic Geography 21(4), 2021, pp.531-556. Link to article. Online appendix. Draft version
- The Urbanising Force of Global Warming: The Role of Climate Change in the Spatial Distribution of Population,
- Population, Light, and the Size Distribution of Cities,
joint work with Christian Düben. Journal of Regional Science 61(1), 2021, pp.189-211.
Link to article. Online appendix
- Population, Light, and the Size Distribution of Cities,
- Rising Mean Incomes for Whom?,
joint work with Liang Frank Shao. PlosOne 15(12), 2020, e0242803. Link to article. Online appendix 1. Online appendix 2
- Rising Mean Incomes for Whom?,
- Convergence vs. The Middle Income Trap: The Case of Global Soccer,
joint work with Stefan Szymanski. Applied Economics 51(27), 2019, pp.2980-2999
Link to article. Online appendix. Working Paper version
- Convergence vs. The Middle Income Trap: The Case of Global Soccer,
- The Millennium Peak in Club Convergence - A New Look at Distributional Changes in the Wealth of Nations. Journal of Applied Econometrics 32(3), 2017, pp.621-642
Link to article. Online appendix. Link to data archive. Draft version
- The Millennium Peak in Club Convergence - A New Look at Distributional Changes in the Wealth of Nations. Journal of Applied Econometrics 32(3), 2017, pp.621-642
- Parametric Lorenz Curves and the Modality of the Income Density Function, Review of Income and Wealth 60(4), 2014, pp.905-929. Link to article. Online appendix. Draft version
- Working Papers
- The Geographical Determinants of Within-City Heterogeneity in Urban Density,
joint work with André Seidel. CESifo Working Paper 8660
- The Geographical Determinants of Within-City Heterogeneity in Urban Density,
- Regional Convergence at the County Level: The Role of Commuters,
joint work with Sebastian Kripfganz. University of Exeter Economics Department Discussion Paper 22/01
- Regional Convergence at the County Level: The Role of Commuters,
- Work in Progress
- Headwind or Tailwind at the Ballot Box? - The Local Effect of Wind Turbines on Green Party Support,
joint work Vincent Stegmaier.
- Headwind or Tailwind at the Ballot Box? - The Local Effect of Wind Turbines on Green Party Support,
- Zero Waste Cities,
joint work Jane Torbert.
- Zero Waste Cities,
- Smaller Notes
- Corrigendum to "Elliptical Lorenz Curves" [J. Econom. 40 (1989) 327 - 338], Journal of Econometrics 174, 2013, p.44. Link to article. Draft version