Prof. Melanie Krause, Ph.D.

Research

Publications

• Regional Dependencies and Local Spillovers: Insights from Commuter Flows,
  joint work with Sebastian Kripfganz. Journal of Regional Science, 2025, Forthcoming. Link to article. Online Appendix

• Unlocking Neighborhood Density,
  joint work with André Seidel. Journal of Urban Economics 144, 2024, article 103708. Link to article. Online Appendix

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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. Working Paper version

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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. Working Paper version

• 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

• Unraveling a Vicious Cycle: The Interplay Between Extreme Weather Events, Urban Expansion, and Deforestation,
  joint work with Leonie Ratzke and Sebastian Sippel. SSRN Working Paper 4848040.

Work in Progress

• Headwind in Sight? - Wind Turbine Visibility and Support for Renewable Energy Policy,
  joint work with Vincent F. Stegmaier.

• Zeroing in on the Zero Waste City,
  joint work with Jane Torbert.

• Bright and Green? A Global View on Density and the Trade-Off Between Economic Activity and Urban Greenness for over 1000 Cities, joint work with Konstantin Reisner and David Castells-Quintana.

• With Open Eyes: Neighborhood Aesthetics, Housing Prices and Residential Sorting, joint work with Vincent F. Stegmaier.

Smaller Notes

• A Belowground Perspective on the Nexus between Biodiversity Change, Climate Change, and Human Well-Being,
  joint work with Nico Eisenhauer, Karin Frank, Alexandra Weigelt, Rémy Beugnon, Katja Liebal, Miguel Mahecha, Martin Quaas,
  Johannes Quaas & 38 further co-authors, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 3(2) , 2024, e212108. Link to article.

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