Alessandra M. Casella
Research Interest
Biography
Alessandra Casella is professor of Economics and professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge), and the Center for Economic Policy Research (London). She received her PhD in Economics from MIT in 1989, taught at UC Berkeley before moving to Columbia in 1993, and held the position of Directeur d’ Etudes (temps partiel) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (Paris and Marseilles) from 1996 to 2010. Her main research interests are political economy, public economics, and experimental economics. Casella has been the recipient of numerous fellowships: she has been a Guggenheim fellow, a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, a Russell Sage fellow, and a Straus fellow at the NYU Law School. Her book "Storable Votes. Protecting the Minority Voice" was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Casella is Director of the Columbia Laboratory for the Social Sciences.
Storable Votes. Protecting the Minority Voice, Oxford University Press, 2012
Agenda control as a cheap talk game, Games and Economic Behavior, 2011
Why Personal Ties Cannot Be Bought, (with N. Hanaki), American Economic Review, 2006
Storable Votes, Games and Economic Behavior, 2005
Redistribution Policy: A European Model, Journal of Public Economics, 2005
The Role of Market Size in the Formation of Jurisdictions, Review of Economic Studies, 2001
Can Foreign Aid Accelerate Stabilization? (with Barry Eichengreen), Economic Journal, 1996
Participation in a Currency Union, American Economic Review, 1992
Federalism and Clubs (with Bruno Frey), European Economic Review, 1992
Economic Exchange in Hyperinflation (with Jonathan Feinstein), Journal of Political Economy, 1990.
Testing for Rational Bubbles, Journal of Monetary Economics, 1989