3 papers
econ.GN2022
Personalization of Web Search During the 2020 US Elections
Ulrich Matter, Roland Hodler, Johannes Ladwig
Search engines play a central role in routing political information to citizens. The algorithmic personalization of search results by large search engines like Google implies that…
econ.GN2018
Expropriations, Property Confiscations and New Offshore Entities: Evidence from the Panama Papers
Ralph-Christopher Bayer, Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky +1
Using the Panama Papers, we show that the beginning of media reporting on expropriations and property confiscations in a country increases the probability that offshore entities ar…
econ.GN2018
Religion and Terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky, Anthony Strittmatter
We study the effect of religion and intense religious experiences on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan fasting. For identification, we exploit two…