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Claire S. H. Lim Assistant Professor Department of Economics Cornell University Campus address: Department of Economics Cornell University 404 Uris Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Tel:  +1 (607) 255-3995 E-mail: clairelim@cornell.edu

Education:

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2008

(Dissertation Committee: Antonio Merlo (Chair), Kenneth I. Wolpin and Robert P. Inman)

M.A. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2004

B.A. in Economics and Political Science, Seoul National University, Summa Cum Laude, 2002

Previous Appointment:

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2008-2011

Fields of Interest:

Political Economy, Law and Economics, Applied Econometrics

Publication:

· “Preferences and Incentives of Appointed and Elected Public Officials”, American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (4).

- Supplementary material for “Preferences and Incentives of Appointed and Elected Public Officials”

Research Papers under Review:

· “The Judge, the Politician, and the Press”(with James Snyder and David Stromberg), revise and resubmit at the Review of Economics Studies

· “Elections and Government Accountability: Evidence from the U.S. State Courts” (with James Snyder)

· “Media Influence on Courts: Evidence from Civil Case Adjudication”

Selected Work in Progress:

· Political Environment, Rate Regulation, and Investment in Electricity Grid (with Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford GSB))

· The effect of overlapping jurisdictions on policy outcomes

Courses Taught:

At Stanford: Econometric Methods (PhD core)

Non-market Strategy (MBA core)

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Evaluation

Economic Policy Analysis

At Cornell: Applied Econometrics (Undergrad core)

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:

Stanford University Vice Provost’s Faculty Research Grant, 2009-2010

National Science Foundation – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (SES–0649237)

(Awarded Project: “Turnover and Accountability of Appointed and Elected Judges”)

From the University of Pennsylvania:

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

School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship (declined)

GAPSA-Provost’s Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation, May 2006

Lawrence Robbins Prize for the Best First Year Student in Economics, September 2003

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 Seoul National University:

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, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern-Kellogg School, Seoul National Univ., Stanford GSB,

Stanford mini-conference on political economy (November 2009, May 2011), U. Chicago,

U.Penn (2), UC-Berkeley, U.Illinois, U. Maryland, Yale, Econometric Society North American Meeting 2008, 2012,

Public Choice Society 2009, Midwest Economic Association 2009, American Law and Economics Association 2009,

Society for Economic Dynamics 2009, 2010, 2012 NBER Summer Institute 2009, 2010, EEA-ESEM 2009, APSA 2009 (discussion),

AEA 2010, 2011, CIRPEE Workshop on Political Economy, Econometric Society World Congress 2010,

Penn Institute for Economic Research (PIER) Conference on Political Economy 2010, Political Institutions and

Economic Policy (PIEP) Conference at Princeton (May 2011, discussant), Rotterdam Political Economy Workshop (June 2011)

BFI Conference on Constitutional Design and the Scope of Government 2013 (discussant)

Referee Service:

American Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization,

Journal of Media Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Political Economy,
Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economic Studies

Professional Membership:

American Economic Association, Econometric Society

Additional Skills:

Languages: Korean (native), English (fluent), French (basic), Chinese (basic)

Programming Skills: FORTRAN90, parallel programming (MPI), STATA, MATLAB, GAUSS and EVIEWS