Roland Hodler

Welcome! I am a Professor of Economics at the University of St.Gallen and a Research Fellow at CEPR, CESifo, and OxCarre. 

I have broad interests in development, political, and public economics. My current research examines how federal designs can promote political stability and economic development in diverse countries and how search engines and social media shape political polarization. 

My work has been published in journals such as Nature, PNAS, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review: Insights, and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and has been featured in media outlets such as BBC, The Economist, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Le Monde, NZZ, El País, and The Washington Post. 

For more information, please see my CV (in pdf) or send me an email.

News:

• February 2026: Our paper on the political effects of X's feed algorithm is published in Nature.

• December 2025: Our paper on Google's personalization and ideological segregation is published in the American Economic Review: Insights.

• September 2025: Our paper Mining for Peace is conditionally accepted by the Journal of the European Economic Association.