NBER profile: Thomas C. Buchmueller.

• Position: Brief article - Biography

Thomas C. Buchmueller is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs in Health Care and Health Economics. He received his B.A. in Economics from Carleton College in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1992. Since 1992, he has taught at the University of California, Irvine, where he is Professor of Economic and Public Policy at the Paul Merage School of Business. He has also been a visiting scholar at University of York (UK), INSEAD and CREDES in France, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Buchmueller will be spending the 2006-7 academic year in Australia as a Packer Policy Fellow. Then, he will be joining the faculty of the University of Michigan's Stephen Ross School of Business, where he will hold the Waldo O. Hildebrand Chair in Risk Management and Insurance.

Buchmueller's research focuses on the economics of...