Sara Casagrande

• Diploma superiore in Ragioneria (2007) – High School Giacomo Floriani (Riva del Garda) – Overall classification: 100/100 cum laude.
• Undergraduate Degree in Business Administration (2010) – University of Trento, Department of Economics and Management - Overall classification: 110/110 cum laude.
• Master Degree in Finance (2012) - University of Trento, Department of Economics and Management – Overall classification: 110/110 cum laude.
• PhD in Economics and Management (2017) - Doctoral School of Social Sciences (University of Trento).

From 2014 to 2024 she has carried out teaching activities as teacher assistant at the University of Trento in the following courses:

• investment and derivatives (Master Degree in Finance)
• macroeconomics and monetary policy (MEC - Master in Economics)
• statistical models for economics and finance (Master Degree in Finance)
• financial economics (Master Degree in Finance)
• financial markets and economic activity (MIM - Master in International Management)
• market analysis laboratory (Undergraduate Degree Economics and Management)
• survey design for social research lab (Master Degree in Sociology and Social Research)
• markets and financial intermediaries – introduction to MATLAB (Master Degree in Finance)
• international trade and competitiveness (MIM - Master in International Management)
• global economic scenarios (Master Degree in International Management – Innovation Management) 

macroeconomic theoretical and applied issues, economic dynamics, cyclical development, economic simulation, capitalism, history of economic thought, European integration process, European institutions and institutional variety, the economic, political and social prospects of the Eurozone, comparative economics, numerical programming and econometric models 

Post-doc research fellow – University of Trento

Project: PRIN 2022 ROOSEVELT IN BRUSSELS. A revival of activist government in post-pandemic Europe? Comparative economic and institutional analysis of the European Union

Project: Institutional variety and Eurozone reform (concluded) 

External fellow CefES (Center for European Studies) - University of Milano Bicocca | Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS) - https://cefes-dems.unimib.it/people/external/

Permanent member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the EASET Conference 

• Participation and collaboration in the organization of the “3nd Summer Module on Economics and Institutions in Europe: Governance of diversity” 1-5 July 2024 (Villa S. Ignazio, Trento, Italy) - Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence.
• Participation conference XI Euro-Asian Symposium on Economic Theory EASET 2024, June 26-28 2024 Institute of Economics UB RAS (Ekaterinburg - online). Title: Economic theory: searching for development alternatives. Presentation of the paper: Beyond Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Economics (with Bruno Dallago). 
• Participation and collaboration in the organization of the “2nd Summer Module on Economics and Institutions in Europe: Redesigning the economic governance of the EU. New threats and opportunities” 10-14 July 2023 (Villa S. Ignazio, Trento, Italy) - Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence. Lecture title: “Comparing economic systems: methods and approaches”. 
• Participation and collaboration in the organization of the “Summer Module on Economics and Institutions in Europe” 12-16 September 2022 (Villa S. Ignazio, Trento, Italy) - Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence. Lecture title: “Comparing economic systems: methods and approaches”. 
• Participation in the “17th European Association of Comparative Economic Studies Conference”, 15-17 September 2022, Naples (mixed). Title "The COVID pandemic: consequences on inequality within and between countries". Organization of a panel in two sessions entitled: “Comparative economic systems: challenges, opportunities and new approaches”.
• Organization of the international conference "The new global challenges and comparative economics" Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento with the research group Economics and Institutions in Europe. October 18-20, 2021.
• Participation in the “16th European Association of Comparative Economic Studies Conference”, 13-17 September 2021 (online). Title "Thirty Years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: Transition and Convergence". Organization of a panel in two sessions entitled: “Comparative economic studies: Conceptual issues” and “Comparative economic studies: Specific policy areas”.
• Participation to the conference “40 years of the Cambridge Journal of Economics” St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (UK) 12-13 July 2016.
• Presentation of the paper “An algorithmic model studying the convergence towards the Sraffian wage-profit frontier” (Sara Casagrande and Stefano Zambelli) during the 27° annual conference of the EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy): Genova 17–19 September 2015. Title conference: “A New Role for the Financial System”.
• Participation to the Fifth Graz Schumpeter Summer School "Economic Stagnation: Problems of Theory and Policy. From Malthus to Piketty" from July 12- 18,2015. Presentation of the paper: "An algorithmic model studying the convergence towards the Sraffan wage-profit frontier".
• Participation to the YSI lectures of the Trento Festival of Economics Trento 29 May – 2 June 2015
• Participation to the YSI Workshop Rome @ 2015 ESHET Conference (organized by INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking): Roma Tre University, Rome, 14-16 May 2015. The workshop preceded the XIX Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET). Course followed: Money and General Equilibrium: An Analytical History of an Unsolvable Question Pascal Bridel, University of Lausanne - Centre Walras-Pareto.
• Participation to the 26° annual conference of the EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy): Nicosia – Ayia Napa (Cipro) 6-8 November 2014. Title Conference: “Unemployment and Austerity in Mediterranean European Countries”.

Special Guest Editor for the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM). Special Issue “Globalization and Economic Integration”

From 2023, reviewer for European journal of law and economics, Quantitative Finance and Economics, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Institutional Economics