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Claire S. H. Lim Assistant
Professor of Political
Economy
Campus
address: Tel:
+1 (650) 721-1289 Fax: +1 (650) 725-0468 E-mail: cshlim@stanford.edu |
To read my short biography, click here.
Education:
Ph.D.
in Economics,
(Dissertation
Committee: Antonio Merlo
(Chair), Kenneth
I. Wolpin and Robert
P. Inman)
M.A.
in Economics,
B.A.
in Economics and Political Science,
Fields of Interest:
Political
Economy, Law and Economics, Applied Econometrics
Research Papers:
“Turnover and
Accountability of Appointed and Elected Judges”, revise and resubmit at
the American Economic Review
“Judges’
Behavior under Approval Vote: A Theoretical Analysis”, 2005
Work
in Progress:
“Measuring the Impact of Media on Court Decisions” (with James
Snyder and David Stromberg)
“Press Coverage, Elections, and Campaign Spending: The Case of
Judiciary” (with James Snyder and David Stromberg)
“Determinants of the Organization of Courts”
Teaching at Stanford:
MGTECON604
– Econometric Methods (GSB-Ph.D. core, Winter 2009, 2010)
POLECON230
– Non-market Strategy (GSB-MBA core, Spring 2009)
PUBPOL301B/IPS
204B – Cost-Benefit Analysis and Evaluation (MPP at SIEPR, Spring 2010)
Research and Teaching Experience at
the Univ. of Pennsylvania:
Research Assistant for Professor Antonio Merlo
Teaching
Assistant, Time-Series Econometrics (Ph.D.), for Professor Frank Schorfheide
(twice)
Teaching
Assistant, Statistics for Economists (Undergraduate), for Professor Gregory
Kordas
Teaching
Assistant, Political Economy (Undergraduate), for Professor Antonio Merlo
Recitation
Instructor, Introductory Microeconomics (Undergraduate), for Professor Uriel
Spiegel
Teaching
Assistant, Law and Economics (Undergraduate), for Professor Nicola Persico
Honors and Awards:
National
Science Foundation – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
(SES–0649237)
(Awarded Project: “Turnover and Accountability of Appointed and Elected Judges”)
From the
W.P.
Carey Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Economics, 2009
Paul
Taubman Memorial Prize for Empirical Economics Research, 2008
Maloof
Family Dissertation Fellowship in Economics, Fall 2007 – Spring 2008
GAPSA-Provost’s
Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation, May 2006
Summer
Fellowship, Department of Economics, Summer 2003
Fellowship,
Center for Analytic Research in Economics and the Social Sciences, Summer 2003
University Fellowship, Fall 2002-Spring 2003
From
Award
for the Graduate with the Best Academic Record (in economics), February 2002
Tae-Sung
Kim Memorial Scholarship in Economics (for the best two seniors), 2001
Scholarship
for Academic Excellence (for the top 2% juniors and seniors), Spring 2000
– Fall 2001
Presentations:
Brown,
Caltech, Concordia, Duke, Northwestern (scheduled, 2009), Seoul National Univ.,
Stanford GSB,
Stanford
mini-conference on political economy (2009, scheduled), U. Chicago (2010,
scheduled),
U.Penn
(2), UC-Berkeley (scheduled, 2009), U.Illinois (scheduled, 2010), ES-NASM 2008,
Public Choice Society 2009,
Midwest
Economic Association 2009, American Law and Economics Association 2009, Society
for Economic
Dynamics
2009, NBER Summer Institute 2009, EEA-ESEM 2009, APSA 2009 (discussion), AEA
2010 (scheduled)
Referee
Service:
American
Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Law, Economics, and
Organization,
Journal
of the European Economic Association
Professional Membership:
American
Economic Association, Econometric Society, American Law and Economics
Association
Additional Skills:
Languages:
Korean (native), English (fluent), French (basic), Chinese (basic)
Programming
Skills: FORTRAN90, parallel programming (MPI), STATA, MATLAB, GAUSS and EVIEWS