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 research interests are in development economics, political economics, public economics, and resource economics. I study policies and institutional reforms that could make natural resources and ethnic diversity sources of prosperity rather than causes of conflict, corruption, and favoritism. Recently, I have also become interested in the effects of search engines and social media on political polarization.

My work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and PNAS. It has been discussed by the BBC, the Economist, the Guardian, Le Monde, NZZ, and the Washington Post.

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

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