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. 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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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. Print Networks and Markets. Contributions from Economics and Sociology (With James Raunch), Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2001.

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