Roland Hodler

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

My interests are in development economics, political economics, and public economics. Among others, I study how ethnically diverse and resource-rich countries can foster development while avoiding conflict and favoritism, as well as how search engines and social media shape political attitudes and polarization. 

My research has been published in leading journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and PNAS, and has been featured by Al Jazeera, BBC, The Economist, The Guardian, Le Monde, NZZ, and The Washington Post. 

For more information, please see my CV or send me an email.

News:

• Our paper Mining for Peace has been conditionally accepted by the Journal of the European Economic Association.

• Our paper on web search personalization during elections is forthcoming in the American Economic Review: Insights.