Hello there, my name is Niklas and I am a doctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at the Helmut-Schmidt University. My research interests lie in development and environmental economics. Currently, I am especially interested in the environmental effects of FDI in host countries. Below are some projects I am working on right now or recently finished.
Publication
Herzer, D. and Schmelmer, N. (2022). The effects of greenfield foreign direct investment and cross‐border mergers and acquisitions on energy intensity in upper-middle income countries and low- and lower-middle income countries. Applied Economics, Published online: 15 Feb 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2035670.
Herzer, D. and Schmelmer, N. (2024). The impact of South-South and North-South FDI on energy intensity in developing countries. Economics Bulletin (forthcoming).
Schmelmer, N. (2025). The effect of FDI-embodied public clean energy R&D spillovers on CO2 emissions. Working paper. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5089465
Email: niklas.schmelmer@hsu-hh.de
Twitter: @NikSchm
CV: here