Roland Hodler

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Journal Articles:

Natural Resources and Income Inequality: The Role of Ethnic Divisions (with Ruikang M. Fum), Economics Letters, accepted subject to minor revision.

Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption (with Sambit Bhattacharyya), European Economic Review, forthcoming.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Working Papers:

Inefficient Policies and Incumbency Advantage (with Simon Loertscher and Dominic Rohner; this version: June 2007), revise and resubmit at Journal of Public Economics.

Institutions, Trade and the Political Economy of Financial Development (this version: June 2007), revise and resubmit at Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.

Elections and the Strategic Use of Budget Deficits (this version: May 2009).

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

Biased Experts, Costly Lies, and Binary Decisions (with Simon Loertscher and Dominic Rohner).

Development (Paradigm) Failures.

All-pay Wars (with Hadi Yektas).