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 2018 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)

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 

Post-doc research fellow – University of Trento – Project: Institutional variety and Eurozone reform

• 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”.