Valentin Lang

I am an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy and Development at the University of Mannheim. Previously, I was at the universities of Zurich, Cambridge, Heidelberg, and Paris and worked for the IMF and the OECD.

I study the various political, economic, and social implications of international integration and disintegration, connecting to the fields of political economy, development economics, geoeconomics, and international relations. My research applies a broad and sometimes interdisciplinary understanding of political economy and is mostly based on advanced statistical methods for causal inference.

My work is published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Development Economics, and other journals. In the press, it has appeared in The Economist, Le Monde, Süddeutsche, and FAZ. In politics, it has led to engagement with ministries, the IMF, the European Commission, and the European Parliament.