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ALESSANDRA CASELLA

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma, Ph.D., 1988. Thesis: "Hyperinflations".

Universita' L. Bocconi, Milano, Laurea in Discipline Economiche e Sociali, March 1983 (summa cum laude). Thesis: "Tassi di Cambio Reali e Shocks di Offerta" (Real Exchange Rates and Supply Shocks).

Professional Appointments

Academic

Columbia University, New York: Professor of Economics, 1997 – present.

Associate Professor, 1993 - 1997.

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris,

Directeur d’Etudes (temps partiel), 1996 - 2010.

University of California at Berkeley, Assistant Professor, 1987 – 1993.

Research

National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA: Research Associate, 1997 – present.

Faculty Research Fellow, 1988 – 1997.

Center for Economic Policy Research, London, Research Fellow, 1988 – present.

National Science Foundation, Economics Panel member, 2004-2006.

Economic Policy , Panel member, 1994 and 1995.

Fellowships

John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2006-07.

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Member 2004-05.

Russell Sage Foundation, New York, N.Y., Fellow, 1997-98.

German Marshall Fund of the United States Fellowship, 1993.

Institute for Policy Reform, Washington, D.C., Junior Research Fellow, 1992-93.

Hoover Institution, Stanford University, National Fellow, 1990-91.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Ford Foundation Fellowship, Fall 1989

Grants

National Science Foundation, Grant No. SES-0617934, "Storable Votes. Part II", 2006-2010.

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

National Science Foundation, Grant No SBR-9709237, "Anonymous Market and Coethnic Ties in International Trade" (Co-PI, with James Rauch), 1997-2001.

Council on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Columbia University, Summer Grant, 1994 and 1995.

Center for German and European Studies, U.C. Berkeley, Summer Grant, 1991.

CEPR, London, Summer Grant,1990.

University of California at Berkeley, Junior Faculty Grant, 1988-89 and 1989-90.

Publications

Journals

“Protecting Minorities in Large Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data.” (with Shuky Ehrenberg, Andrew Gelman, and Jie Shen), forthcoming, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Advances).

“Agenda Control as a Cheap Talk Game. Theory and Experiments with Storable Votes”, forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior.

“Minorities and Storable Votes” (with Thomas Palfrey and Raymond Riezman), 2008, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 3: 165-200.

“A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda” (with Andrew Gelman), 2008, Journal of Public Economics, 92: 2240-2261.

“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, Papers and Proceedings, 96, 2, 261-264.

"Redistribution Policy: A European Model", 2005, Journal of Public Economics, 89, 1305-1331.

“Storable Votes”, 2005, Games and Economic Behavior, 51, 391-419.

"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. Kreickemeier, (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, 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.S. 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, Papers and Proceedings, 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, November , 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.

James Rauch and Alessandra Casella, eds, 2001, Networks and Markets. Contributions from Economics and Sociology, Russell Sage Foundation: New York.

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, 11-27.

“Concluding Remarks. Questions for Policy”, in Rauch and 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, Ökonomie als Grundlage politischer 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.S. 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, 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, 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, 131-156.

Comments

Discussion of: Alan 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, April.

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

“Trading Votes for Money” (with Thomas Palfrey), in progress.

“Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes” (with Aniol Llorente-Saguer and Thomas Palfrey) NBER W.P. 16315, August 2010.

“Costly Transmission of Information. A Comparison of Signals and Networks” (with Nobi Hanaki), paper presented at the conference: Networks: Theory and Applications, Stockholm, June 2004.

Teaching

Graduate macroeconomics (first year and second year Ph.D. courses), Department of Economics, Columbia University, Spring 1994 - Spring 2004.

Second year Ph.D course on “Topics in Political Economics”, Department of Economics, Columbia University, Fall 2005, Spring 2008-2010.

Intermediate macroeconomics, Department of Economics, Columbia University, Spring 1999.

Macroeconomics, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Spring 1995.

Political economy, seniors seminar, Departments of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University, Spring 1995 - Spring 2001, Fall 2005, Spring 2009, 2010.

Undergraduate lecture class in political economy, Departments of Economics and Political Science, Fall 2005; Fall 2006, Spring 2008-2010.

Macroeconomics, seniors seminar, Department of Economics, Columbia University, Spring 1996.

Graduate macroeconomics (first year and second year Ph.D. courses), Undergraduate macroeconomics, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, Spring 1987 - Spring 1993.