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Prof. Melanie Krause, Ph.D.
Leipzig University
Grimmaische Straße 12
04109 Leipzig, Germany
+49 341 97 33796
[email protected]

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.

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My research 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.

My work has been published, inter alia, in the Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics,
Journal of Economic Geography and Journal of Applied Econometrics. See all publications.

I have obtained funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) :

2024 - 2029: Together with my colleagues, I am leading the DFG Research Training Group
ECO-N: The Economics of Connected Natural Commons - Atmosphere and Biodiversity . Learn more.

2017 - 2020: DFG research grant jointly with Richard Bluhm and Christian Lessmann for the project
Shining (New) Light on Regional Inequality, Convergence and Development . Learn more.

Curriculum Vitae

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