Roland Hodler Professor of Economics at the University of St.Gallen, Director of SIAW-HSG, Research Fellow at CEPR and CESifo, and External Research Associate at OxCarre. His main areas of interest are development economics and political economics. Among others, he is interested in the effects of natural resources, foreign aid and ethnic divisions on economic performance, favoritism, corruption, and conflict. His research has been published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.