Alessandra Casella

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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.

Life

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.{{Cite web|url=https://econ.columbia.edu/econpeople/alessandra-casella/|title=Alessandra Casella {{!}} Columbia {{!}} Economics|access-date=2019-11-21}}

In 2019, Casella was the director of the Columbia Laboratory for the Social Sciences,{{Cite web|url=http://iserp.columbia.edu/center/columbia-experimental-laboratory-social-sciences|title=Columbia Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences {{!}} ISERP|website=iserp.columbia.edu|access-date=2019-11-21}} 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.

Career

= Academic =

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.

= Journals =

1996: Invited editor for the European Economic Review. A special issue on the domain of the state
2007: Invited editor for the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. A special issue in honor of Economist Alan Kirman
2004–2009: Associate Editor for the Journal of Public Economic Theory
2013–2017: On the editorial board for the Journal of Experimental Political Science
2016–current: Associate Editor for the American Economic Review

= Others =

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
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

Fall 1989: National Bureau of Economic Research, Ford Foundation Fellowship{{Cite web|url=https://econ.columbia.edu/econpeople/alessandra-casella/|title=Alessandra Casella {{!}} Columbia {{!}} Economics|access-date=2019-11-20}}
1990–1991: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, National Fellow
1992–1993: Institute for Policy Reform, Washington, D.C., Junior Research Fellow
1993: German Marshall Fund of the United States Fellowship
1997–1998: Russell Sage Foundation, New York, N.Y., Fellow
2004–2005: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Member
2006–2007: John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
2012–2013: Straus Institute Fellow, NYU Law School

Academic publications

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Journal publications {{Cite web|url=https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/alessandra-m-casella|title=Alessandra M. Casella {{!}} Political Science|website=polisci.columbia.edu|access-date=2019-11-21}}

!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 =

“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.

Books

Storable Votes: Protecting the Minority Voice. Oxford University Press, New York, 2012.{{Cite book|url=https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195309096.001.0001/acprof-9780195309096|title=Storable Votes: Protecting the Minority Voice|last=Casella|first=Alessandra|date=2011-12-23|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-991817-1|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195309096.001.0001}} Print {{ISBN|9780195309096}}
Networks and Markets. Contributions from Economics and Sociology (With James Raunch), Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2001.{{Cite web|url=https://www.russellsage.org/publications/networks-and-markets|title=Networks and Markets {{!}} RSF|website=www.russellsage.org|access-date=2019-11-21}} {{ISBN|978-0-87154-700-2}}

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Chapters in Books

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!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