Alexander Cardazzi
Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University
Alex Cardazzi is an assistant professor of economics at Old Dominion University.
His research focuses on urban economics, transportation economics, sports economics, applied microeconomics, and applied econometrics. His work includes research on the economic effects of transportation infrastructure, sports, and other local economic activity.
Before joining Old Dominion University, Cardazzi was a visiting assistant professor of economics at West Virginia University. Earlier, he worked as a data analyst intern at TrackMan, where he analyzed sports-tracking data and provided data and analytics to professional and collegiate baseball organizations.
Cardazzi has received research funding from the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century initiative and for research estimating the economic impact of the Hampton Roads Sanitation District’s Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow project. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Sport Management and on the boards of the Eastern Economic Association and Virginia Association of Economists.
Cardazzi earned a Ph.D. in economics from West Virginia University and a bachelor’s in mathematics from Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he minored in economics.