- Source: Alessandra Casella
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.
In 2019, Casella was the director of the Columbia Laboratory for the Social Sciences, 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
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
= 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. Print ISBN 9780195309096
Networks and Markets. Contributions from Economics and Sociology (With James Raunch), Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2001. ISBN 978-0-87154-700-2