Roland Hodler

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Current Working Papers

Compulsory Voting and Public Finance, 2010.

Foreign Aid and Enlightened Leaders (with Paul A. Raschky), 2010.

Development Paradigm Failures, 2011.

Do Natural Resource Revenues Hinder Financial Development? The Role of Political Institutions (with Sambit Bhattacharyya), 2010.

Journal Articles

All-pay War (with Hadi Yektaş), Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.

Ethnic Fractionalisation and Aid Effectiveness (with David S. Knight), Journal of African Economies 21(1), 65-93, 2012.

Electoral Terms and Terrorism (with Dominic Rohner), Public Choice 150(1-2), 181-193, 2012.

Institutions, Trade and the Political Economy of Financial Development, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 167(3), 445-464, 2011.

Elections and the Strategic Use of Budget Deficits, Public Choice 148(1-2), 149-161, 2011.

Inefficient Policies and Incumbency Advantage (with Simon Loertscher and Dominic Rohner), Journal of Public Economics 94(9-10), 761-767, 2010.

Natural Resources and Income Inequality: The Role of Ethnic Divisions (with Ruikang M. Fum), Economics Letters 107(3), 360-363, 2010.

Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption (with Sambit Bhattacharyya), European Economic Review 54(4), 608-621, 2010.

Redistribution and Inequality in a Heterogeneous Society, Economica 76(304), 704-718, 2009.

Industrial Policy in an Imperfect World, Journal of Development Economics 90(1), 85-93, 2009.

What determines Financial Development? Culture, Institutions, or Trade (with Nils Herger and Michael Lobsiger), Review of World Economics 144(3), 558-587, 2008.

For the student: Political Economics, Australian Economic Review 41(3), 330-335, 2008.

Specialization and Welfare in the Presence of Imperfectly Integrated Capital Markets and Learning-by-Doing, Open Economies Review 19(3), 391-402, 2008.

Leisure and Redistribution, European Journal of Political Economy 24(2), 354-363, 2008.

Rent Seeking and Aid Effectiveness, International Tax and Public Finance 14(5), 525-541, 2007.

The Curse of Natural Resources in Fractionalized Countries, European Economic Review 50(6), 1367-1386, 2006. Listed in: Top 10 cited articles published in the last five years, European Economic Review homepage, 2010, 2011.

How Fiscal Decentralization Flattens Progressive Taxes (with Kurt Schmidheiny), FinanzArchiv 62(2), 281-304, 2006. 

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