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Alessandra Casella

Education
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. 1988
Thesis Title: "Hyperinflations".
Cambridge, MA
    Universita' L. Bocconi, Laurea in Discipline Economiche e Sociali, 1983 (summa cum laude).
Thesis Title: "Tassi di Cambio Reali e Shocks di Offerta"
(Real Exchange rates and Supply Shocks).
Milano, Italia
  Professional Appointments
Academic  
    1997 - present Columbia University
Professor of Economics
New York, NY
    1996 - present Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Directeur d’Etudes (temps partiel)
Paris, France
    1993 - 1997 Columbia University
Associate Professor of Economics
New York, NY
    1987 - 1993 University of California at Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Econimics
Berkeley, CA
  Research
    1997 - present National Bureau of Economic Research
Research Associate
Cambridge, MA
    1988 - present Center for Economic Policy Research
Research Fellow
London, England
    1988 - 1997 National Bureau of Economic Research
Faculty Research Fellow
Cambridge, MA
    2004-2006 National Science Foundation
Economics Panel Member
Washington, DC
    1994 and 1995 Economic Policy
Panel Member
 
  Fellowships
    2006 - 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
New York, NY
    2004 - 2005 Institute for Advanced Study, Member
Princeton, NJ
    1997 - 1998 Russell Sage Foundation, Fellow
New York, NY
    1993 German Marshall Fund of the United States, Fellow
Washington DC
    1992 - 1993 Institute for Policy Reform , Junior Research Fellow Washington, DC.
    1990-1991 Hoover Institution, National Fellow
Stanford, CA
    Fall 1989 National Bureau of Economic Research
Ford Foundation fellowship
Cambridge, MA
    Journals  
   

2004-present Journal of Public Economic Theory

Associate Editor

 
   

Forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Invited editor, special issue in honor of Alan Kirman

 
   

1996 European Economic Review

Invited editor, special issue on the domain of the state

 
    Grants  
    2006-2008 National Science Foundation, Grant No. SES-0617934

Storable Votes, Part II

Washington, DC
   

2002-2005 National Science Foundation, Grant No. SES-0214013

Storable Votes

Washington, DC
   

1997-2001 National Science Foundation, Grant No. SBR-9709237 (Co-PI, with James Rauch)

Anonymous Market and Coethnic Ties in International Trade

Washington, DC
    1994 and 1995 Council on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Columbia University
Summer Grant
New York, NY
    1991 Center for German and European Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Summer Grant
Berkeley, CA
    1990 CEPR
Summer Grant
London, U.K.
    1988 -1989 and 1989-1990 University of California at Berkeley
Junior Faculty Fellowship
Berkeley, CA
  Publications
  Journals  
    "A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda" (with Andrew Gelman), forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics.  
Minorities and Storable Votes" (with Thomas Palfrey and Raymond Riezman), forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
"Information Channels in Labor Markets. On the Resilience of Referral Hiring" (with Nobuyuki Hanaki), 2008, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 66, 492-513.
"Storable Votes: Protecting Minorities without Sacrificing Efficiency" (with Thomas Palfrey and Raymond Riezman), 2007, CESifo DICE Report, 5, 3, 17-22.
"An Experimental Study of Storable Votes"(with Andrew Gelman and Thomas Palfrey), 2006, Games and Economic Behavior, 57, 123-154
    "Why Personal Ties Cannot Be Bought" (with Nobuyuki Hanaki), 2006, American Economic Review, 96, 261-264.  
    "Storable Votes", 2005, Games and Economic Behavior, 51, 391-419.  
    "Redistribution Policy: A European Model", 2005, Journal of Public Economics, 89, 1305-1331.  
    "Overcoming Informational Barriers in International Resource Allocations: Prices and Ties"
(with James Rauch), 2003, The Economic Journal, 113, 21-42.
 
    "Anonymous Market and Group Ties in International Trade" (with James Rauch), 2002, Journal of International Economics, 58, 19-47. Reprinted in Falvey, R.E. and U. Kreickermeier (eds.), 2005, Recent Developments in International Trade Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, U.K.  
    "Public Goods in Trade: On the Formation of Markets and Jurisdictions"
(with Jonathan Feinstein) , 2002, The International Economic Review, 43, 437-462.
 
    "Market Mechanisms for Policy Decisions. Tools for the European Union", 2001, European Economic Review, 45, 995-1006
 
    "The Role of Market Size in the Formation of Jurisdictions", 2001, The Review of Economic Studies, 68, 83-108
 
    "Product Standards and International Trade. Harmonization through Private Coalitions?", 2001 Kyklos, 54, 243-264. Reprinted in Henson, S and J. Wilson, (eds.), 2005, The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, U.K, 494-515.  
    "Tradable Deficit Permits. Efficient Implementation of the Stability Pact in the European Monetary Union", 1999, 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.  
    "Can Foreign Aid Accelerate Stabilization?"(with Barry Eichengreen), 1996, The Economic Journal, 106, 605-619
 
    "Large Countries, Small Countries and the Enlargement of Trade Blocs", 1996, European Economic Review, 40, 389-415
 
    "On Market Integration and the Development of Institutions. The Case of International Commercial Arbitration" , 1996, European Economic Review, 40, 155-186
 
    "Trade as Engine of Political Change. A Parable", 1994, Economica, 61, 267-284
 
    "Participation in a Currency Union", 1992, American Economic Review, 82, 847-863
 
    "On Markets and Clubs. Economic and Political Integration of Regions with Unequal Productivity" , 1992, American Economic Review, 82, 115-121
 
    "A Note on Bargaining and Inflation" (with Jonathan Feinstein) , 1992, Economic Letters, 38, 393-398
 
    "Federalism and Clubs. Towards an Economic Theory of Overlapping Political Jurisdictions"
(with Bruno Frey), 1992, European Economic Review, 36, 639-646
 
    "Economic Exchange during Hyperinflation" (with Jonathan Feinstein), 1990, Journal of Political Economy, 98, 1-27
 
    "Testing for Rational Bubbles with Exogenous or Endogenous Fundamentals: the German Hyperinflation Once More", 1989, Journal of Monetary Economics, 24, 109-122
 
    "Integracion Monetaria Europea y la Economia de la Sostitucion de Monedas", 1989, Informacion Comercial Espanola, 47-50
 
    "Elasticita' di Sostituzione tra Energia, Capitale e Lavoro nel Settore Manifatturiero Italiano 1960-1978", 1984, Giornale degli Economisti, XLIII, 491-505
 
  Books
  Storable Votes, in progress, Oxford University Press.
    Networks and Markets. Contributions from Economics and Sociology, J. Rauch and A. Casella (eds.), 2001 , Russell Sage Foundation: New York, N.Y.
 
  Chapters in Books
    "Games for Central Bankers. Markets v/s Politics in Public Policy Decisions", in Wyplosz C. (ed.), 2001, The Impact of EMU on Europe and the Developing Countries, Oxford University Press: Oxford, U.K., 11-127.  
    "Concluding Remarks. Questions for Policy", in Rauch J. and A. Casella (eds.), 2001, Networks and Markets, op.cit., 328-337.  
    "Policy Coordination and National Sovereignty in a Monetary Union. Two Easy Recipes", in Gabriel J. and M. Neugart (eds.), 2001, Ekonomie als Grundlage politilscher Entscheidungen, Leske plus Budrich: Opladen, 199-217.  
    "Free Trade and Evolving Standards", in Bhagwati, J. and R. Hudec (eds.), 1996, Harmonization and Fair Trade, MIT Press: Cambridge, Ma, 119-156. Reprinted in Henson, S and J. Wilson, (eds.), 2005, The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, U.K, 3-40.  
    "Elements for a Theory of Jurisdictional Change" (with Barry Weingast), in
Eichengreen B., J. Frieden and J. von Hagen (eds.), 1995, Politics and Institutions in an Integrated Europe, Springer: New York and Heidelberg, 11-41.
 
    "Halting Inflation in Italy and France after World War II"
(with Barry Eichengreen), in M. Bordo and F. Capie (eds.), 1994, Monetary Regimes in Transition, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, U.K., 312-345.
 
    "Voting on the Adoption of a Common Currency", in
M. Canzoneri, V. Grilli and P. Masson (eds.), 1992, Establishing a Central Bank
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, U.K., 164-184.
 
    "Management of a Common Currency"
(with Jonathan Feinstein), in A. Giovannini e M. De Cecco (eds.), 1989, A European Central Bank? , Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, U.K., 131:156.
 
  Comments
    Discussion of: A. Kirman, "Market Organization and Individual Behavior. Evidence from Fish Markets", in Rauch and Casella (eds.), 2001, Networks and Markets , op.cit., 196-210.  
    Discussion of: C. Keuschnigg and W. Kohler, "Austria in the European Union", 1996 Economic Policy, 11, No. 22.
 
    Discussion of: P. Krugman, "Lessons of Massachusetts for Economic and Monetary Union", in Giavazzi, F. and F. Torres, (eds.), 1993, Transition to Economic and Monetary Union in Europe , Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, U.K.  
  Working Papers
    "Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data " (with S. Ehrenberg, A. Gelman and J. Shen), May 2008.  
   

"Costly Transmission of Information . A Comparison of Signals and Networks"
(with Nobi Hanaki), paper presented at the Conference on Networks:Theory and Applications, Stckholm, June 2004

 
  Teaching
    2005, 2008 Political Economy, Graduate lecture course
Department of Economics, Columbia University
New York, NY
    1994 - 1997, 1999 - 2004 Graduate Macroeconomics
Department of Economics, Columbia University
New York, NY
    1995 - 1997, 1999 - 2001, 2005 Political Economy, Senior Seminar
Departments of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University
New York, NY
    2005,2006, 2008 Political Economy, Undergraduate lecture course
Departments of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University
New York, NY
    1999 Intermediate Macroeconomics
Department of Economics, Columbia University
New York, NY
    1996 Macroeconomics, Senior Seminar
Department of Economics, Columbia University
New York, NY
    1995 Macroeconomics
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
New York, NY
    1987 - 1993 Graduate Macroeconomics, Undergraduate Macroeconomics
Department of Economics, Univeristy of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
  Referee
    American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Economica, Economic Journal, Economics and Politics, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Jouranl of Public Economic Theory, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, National Science Foundation.  
       
    Updated: May 2008