Jens Suedekum is a Professor at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at Heinrich-Heine University and a Research Fellow at numerous economic institutes, including the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He earned his Diplom-Volkswirt (equivalent to a M.A. in Economics) and Ph.D. in Economics from Georg-August-University Göttingen.

Professor Suedekum researches international trade, regional and urban economics, labour economics, and industrial organization.

Representative Publications

Behrens, Kristian, et al. “Spatial Frictions.” Journal of Urban Economics 97 (2017): 40-70.

Dauth, Wolfgang, and Jens Suedekum. “Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change.” Journal of Economic Geography 16.5 (2015): 1007-1034.

Schmidheiny, Kurt, and Jens Suedekum. “The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas.” Economics Letters 133 (2015): 10-13.