Leipzig University · Faculty of Business and Economics

Prof. Melanie Krause, Ph.D.

Portrait of Prof. Melanie Krause

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

2024 – 2029

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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2017 – 2020

DFG Research Grant

PI of Shining (New) Light on Regional Inequality, Convergence and Development, jointly with Richard Bluhm and Christian Lessmann.