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Christian Lessmann is Professor of Economics, esp. International Economics at TUD Dresden University of Technology. He is Research Professor at the ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich e.V. and CESifo Research Network Fellow. Christian Lessmann is member of the Regional Economics Section as well as the Development Economics Section of the German Economic Association.

Before joining TUD, Christian Lessmann was Professor of Economics at TU Braunschweig and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. He received both his habilitation and his PhD at Technische Universität Dresden, and he was junior researcher and PhD candidate at the ifo Institute Dresden Branch. His research was awarded with the Wolfgang Ritter Prize, the Georg-Helm Prize, the Dr. Feldbausch Prize, and the Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize.

His research interests include International Economics, Development Economics, Regional Economics and Political Economy.

Selected Publications

• The Political Geography of Cities: Capital Cities, Economic Fundamentals, and Urban Growth, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming) (with Richard Bluhm and Paul Schaudt)

• The Effect of Cap-and-Trade on Sectoral Emissions: Evidence from California, Energy Policy (with Niklas Kramer), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114066

• The unequal burden of human-wildlife conflict, Nature, Communcations Biology 6, 182, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04493-y 2023, (with A.R. Braczkowski, C.J. O’Brian, C. Lessmann, A. Crysell, C. Rondinini, M. Stringer, L. Gibson, S. Gilbert & D. Biggs)

• International Trade, Geographic Heterogeneity and Interregional Inequality, European Economic Review 127 (with Georg Hirte und André Seidel)
• Human Lights, Remote Sensing 11(19), 2019, 2194 (with Ilari Määttä)
• Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space, European Economic Review (92), 2017, 110-132 (with André Seidel)
• Spatial Inequality and Development – Is there an inverted U relationship? Journal of Development Economics 106, 2014, 35-51
• Interregional Redistribution and Mobility in Federations: A Positive Approach, Review of Economic Studies 78(4), 2011, 1345–1378 (with Anke S. Kessler and Nico A. Hansen)

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