Roland Hodler

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Journal Articles:

Electoral Terms and Terrorism (with D. Rohner), Public Choice, forthcoming.

Inefficient Policies and Incumbency Advantage (with S. Loertscher and D. Rohner), Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.

Institutions, Trade and the Political Economy of Financial Development, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, forthcoming.

Elections and the Strategic Use of Budget Deficits, Public Choice, forthcoming.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Working Papers:

Ethnic Fractionalization and Aid Effectiveness (with D. Knight; this version: August 2009).

All-pay Wars (with H. Yektas; this version April 2010).

Biased Experts, Costly Lies, and Binary Decisions (with S. Loertscher and D. Rohner; this version July 2010).

Development (Paradigm) Failures.