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Alessandra Casella is an economist, researcher, professor, and author. Currently, she is an Economics and Political Science professor at Columbia University.
Casella received her bachelor's degree with a summa cum laude in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, Milan, in March 1983. She furthered her studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she received her master's degree and Ph.D. in economics, 1988. Her thesis focused on hyperinflation and the real exchange rates and supply shocks in the economy. After graduating, Casella's research continues to focus on economics, with more specific interests in public economics, experimental economics, and political economy. [1]
In 2019, Casella was the director of the Columbia Laboratory for the Social Sciences, [2] and a fellow in both the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge and the British Center for Economic Policy Research. She is the author of two books: Networks and Markets. Contributions from Economics and Sociology and Storable Votes: Protecting the Minority Voice. [1]
Casella started her teaching career at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor from 1987 to 1993. From 1996 to 2010, she was the part-time Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) based in Paris, France. In the time between her career in UC Berkeley and Directorship at EHESS, Casella became an associate Professor of Economics at Columbia University, New York, from 1993 till 1997. Her career with Columbia University continued where she eventually became a professor of economics at Columbia University in 1997 until current. Since then, Casella has taught Ph.D. courses in Experimental Methods in Political Economy and Special Topics in Political Economics. She has also taught undergraduate classes in political economy and experimental economics. Since 2017, Casella has also become a Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. [1]
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| 1984 | Elasticita' di Sostituzione tra Energia, Capitale e Lavoro nel Settore Manifatturiero Italiano 1960-1978 | Giornale degli Economisti, XLIII, 491–505. | Alessandra Casella |
| 1989 | Integracion Monetaria Europea y la Economia de la Sostitucion de Monedas | Informacion Comercial Espanola, November, 47–50. | Alessandra Casella |
| 1989 | Testing for Rational Bubbles with Exogenous or Endogenous Fundamentals: the German Hyperinflation Once More | Journal of Monetary Economics, 24,109–122. | Alessandra Casella |
| 1990 | Economic Exchange during Hyperinflation | Journal of Political Economy, 98, 1–27. | Alessandra Casella & Jonathan Feinstein |
| 1992 | Federalism and Clubs. Towards an Economic Theory of Overlapping Political Jurisdictions | European Economic Review, 36, 639–646. | Alessandra Casella & Bruno Frey |
| 1992 | A Note on Bargaining and Inflation | Economic Letters, 38, 393–398. | Alessandra Casella & Jonathan Feinstein |
| 1992 | On Markets and Clubs. Economic and Political Integration of Regions with Unequal Productivity | American Economic Review, 82, 115–121. | Alessandra Casella |
| 1992 | Participation in a Currency Union | American Economic Review, 82, 847–863. | Alessandra Casella |
| 1994 | Trade as Engine of Political Change. A Parable | Economica, 61, 267–284. | Alessandra Casella |
| 1996 | On Market Integration and the Development of Institutions. The Case of International Commercial Arbitration | European Economic Review, 40, 155–186. (Reprinted in O. C. Ashenfelter and R. K. Iyengar (eds.), 2009, Economics of Commercial Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Edward Elgar Publishing). | Alessandra Casella |
| 1996 | Large Countries, Small Countries and the Enlargement of Trade Blocs | European Economic Review, 40, 389–415. | Alessandra Casella |
| 1996 | Can Foreign Aid Accelerate Stabilization? | The Economic Journal, 106, 605–619. | Alessandra Casella & Barry Eichengreen |
| 1999 | Tradable Deficit Permits. Efficient Implementation of the Stability Pact in the European Monetary Union | Economic Policy, 29, 323–361. (Reprinted in Brunila, A., Buti, M. and D. Franco (eds.), 2001, The Stability and Growth Pact, Palgrave: London, 394–413.). | Alessandra Casella |
| 2001 | Product Standards and International Trade. Harmonization through Private Coalitions? | Kyklos, 54, 243–264. (Reprinted in Henson, S. and J.S. Wilson (eds.), 2005, The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, U.K., 494–515.) | Alessandra Casella |
| 2001 | The Role of Market Size in the Formation of Jurisdictions | The Review of Economic Studies, 68, 83–108. | Alessandra Casella |
| 2001 | Market Mechanisms for Policy Decisions. Tools for the European Union | European Economic Review, 45, 995–1006. | Alessandra Casella |
| 2002 | Public Goods in Trade: On the Formation of Markets and Jurisdictions | International Economic Review, 43, 437–462. | Alessandra Casella & Jonathan Feinstein |
| 2002 | Anonymous Market and Group Ties in International Trade | Journal of International Economics, 58, 19–47. (Reprinted in Falvey, R. E. and U. Kreickemeier, (eds.), 2005, Recent Developments in International Trade Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, U.K.) | Alessandra Casella & James Rauch |
| 2003 | Overcoming Informational Barriers in International Resource Allocations: Prices and Ties | The Economic Journal, 113, 21–42. | Alessandra Casella & James Rauch |
| 2005 | Storable Votes | Games and Economic Behavior, 51, 391–419. | Alessandra Casella |
| 2005 | Redistribution Policy: A European Model | Journal of Public Economics, 89, 1305–1331. | Alessandra Casella |
| 2006 | Why Personal Ties Cannot Be Bought | American Economic Review, 96, 2, 261–264. | Alessandra Casella & Nobuyuki Hanaki |
| 2006 | An Experimental Study of Storable Votes | Games and Economic Behavior, 57, 123–154. | Alessandra Casella, Andrew Gelman, & Thomas Palfrey |
| 2007 | Storable Votes: Protecting Minorities without Sacrificing Efficiency | CESifo DICE Report, 5, 3, 17–22. | Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey, & Raymond Riezman |
| 2008 | Information Channels in Labor Markets. On the Resilience of Referral Hiring | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 66, 492–513. | Alessandra Casella & Nobuyuki Hanaki |
| 2008 | A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda | Journal of Public Economics, 92: 2240–2261. | Alessandra Casella & Andrew Gelman |
| 2008 | Minorities and Storable Votes | Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 3: 165–200. | Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey, & Raymond Riezman |
| 2010 | Protecting Minorities in Large Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data | The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Advances), Vol. 10: Iss. 1. | Alessandra Casella, Shuky Ehrenberg, Andrew Gelman, & Jie Shen |
| 2011 | Agenda Control as a Cheap Talk Game. Theory and Experiments with Storable Votes | Games and Economic Behavior, 72: 46–76. | Alessandra Casella |
| 2012 | Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes | Journal of Political Economy, 120: 593–658. | Alessandra Casella, Aniol Llorente-Saguer & Thomas Palfrey |
| 2014 | Vote Trading with and without Party Leaders | Journal of Public Economics, 112:115–128. | Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey, & Sebastien Turban |
| 2014 | Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets | Games and Economic Behavior, 88: 47–70. | Alessandra Casella & Sebastien Turban |
| 2017 | Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate | Journal of Theoretical Politics, 29: 243–272. | Alessandra Casella, Sébastien Turban, & Gregory Wawro |
| 2017 | Democracy for Polarized Committees. The Tale of Blotto’s Lieutenants | Games and Economic Behavior, 106, 239–259. | Alessandra Casella, Jean-Francois Laslier, & Antonin Macé |
| 2018 | Communication in Context: Interpreting Promises in an Experiment on Competition and Trust | PNAS, 115 (5) 933–938. | Alessandra Casella, Navin Kartik, Luis Sanchez, & Sébastien Turban |
| 2018 | A Property Rights Approach to Temporary Work Visas | Journal of Legal Studies, 47 (S1), S195–S227. | Alessandra Casella & Adam Cox |
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| 1989 | A European Central Bank? | "Management of a Common Currency" p. 131-156 | Cambridge University Press: Cambridge |
| 1992 | Establishing a Central Bank | "Voting on the Adoption of a Common Currency" p. 164-184 | Cambridge University Press: Cambridge |
| 1994 | Monetary Regimes in Transition | "Halting Inflation in Italy and France after World War II" p. 312-345 | Cambridge University Press: Cambridge |
| 1995 | Politics and Institutions in an Integrated Europe | "Elements for a Theory of Jurisdictional Change" p. 11-41 | Springer: New York and Heidelberg |
| 1996 | Harmonization and Fair Trade | "Free Trade and Evolving Standards" p. 119-156 | MIT Press: Cambridge |
| 2001 | Ökonomie als Grundlage politischer Entscheidungen | "Policy Coordination and National Sovereignty in a Monetary Union. Two Easy Recipes" p. , 199-217 | Leske plus Budrich: Opladen |
| 2001 | Networks and Markets | “Concluding Remarks. Questions for Policy” p. 328-337 | |
| 2001 | The Impact of EMU on Europe and the Developing Countries | "Games for Central Bankers. Markets vs Politics in Public Policy Decisions" p. 11-27 | Oxford University Press: Oxford |
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