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Claire S. H. Lim Ph.D. candidate Department of Economics University of Pennsylvania Campus address: 160 McNeil Building 3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia PA 19104-6209 Office phone number: +1 (215) 898-0658 E-mail address: shlim@sas.upenn.edu

I will be Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Stanford GSB from July, 2008.

Education:

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, expected May 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

Research Interests:

Political Economy, Law and Economics, Empirical Microeconomics, Applied Micro Theory

Research Papers:

“Turnover and Accountability of Appointed and Elected Judges” (Ph.D. Dissertation), 2007

“Judges’ Behavior under Approval Vote: A Theoretical Analysis”, 2005

Honors and Awards:

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

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

University of Pennsylvania

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

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

Research and Teaching Experience:

Research Assistant for prof. Antonio Merlo, Fall 2006 – Summer 2007

Teaching Assistant, Political Economy (Undergraduate), for prof. Antonio Merlo, Spring 2006

Recitation Instructor, Introductory Microeconomics (Undergraduate), for prof. Uriel Spiegel, Fall 2005

Teaching Assistant, Time-Series Econometrics (Ph.D. level), for prof. Frank Schorfheide, Spring 2004 and Spring 2005

Teaching Assistant, Law and Economics (Undergraduate), for prof. Nicola Persico, Fall 2004

Teaching Assistant, Statistics for Economists (Undergraduate), for prof. Gregory Kordas, Fall 2003

Referee Service:

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

Additional Skills:

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

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