Research

Research interests include International Economics, Development Economics, Regional Economics and Political Economy.

Several research projects are based on granular, geo-referenced data such as daytime and nighttime light data from satellites.

Projekts
Shining (New) Light on Regional INequality, Convergence and Development (DFG Grant LE2395/2-1, 2017-2021). See https://lightinequality.com/

Selected publications
Professor Christian Lessmann

• Spatial Inequality, Geography and Economic Activity, World Development 136 (with Sandra Achten)
• 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)