Alessandra Casella is an economist, researcher, professor, and author. Currently, she is an Economics and Political Science professor at Columbia University.

Alessandra Casella
Occupations
  • Economist
  • researcher
  • professor
  • author
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsColumbia University

Life

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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]

Career

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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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Others

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  • 1988–1997: Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge
  • 1988: Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research, London
  • 1994–1995: Panel member at Economic Policy[1]
  • 1997: Research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge
  • 2004–2006: Economics panel member at the National Science Foundation
  • 2012: Director at Columbia Experimental Laboratory for Social Sciences
  • 2013–2016: Scientific Board member at AXA Research Fund

Fellowships

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Academic publications

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Journal publications [3][4]
Year Title Publication Author(s)
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

Working papers

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  • “Trading Votes for Votes. An Experiment” (with Thomas Palfrey), May 2017
  • “Storable Votes and Quadratic Voting. An Experiment on Four California Propositions” (with Luis Sanchez), in progress.[1]

Books

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  • Storable Votes: Protecting the Minority Voice. Oxford University Press, New York, 2012.[5] Print ISBN 9780195309096
  • Networks and Markets. Contributions from Economics and Sociology (With James Raunch), Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2001.[6] ISBN 978-0-87154-700-2
Chapters in Books [3]
Year Book Chapter Publication
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

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Alessandra Casella | Columbia | Economics". Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  2. ^ "Columbia Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences | ISERP". iserp.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  3. ^ a b c "Alessandra Casella | Columbia | Economics". Retrieved 2019-11-20.
  4. ^ "Alessandra M. Casella | Political Science". polisci.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  5. ^ Casella, Alessandra (2011-12-23). Storable Votes: Protecting the Minority Voice. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195309096.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-991817-1.
  6. ^ "Networks and Markets | RSF". www.russellsage.org. Retrieved 2019-11-21.