Jan Brueckner

Jan Keith Brueckner (* 1950 in Berkeley , California ) is an American economist and university professor . His main areas of activity are urban and transport economics .

Career, research and teaching

Brueckner completed his Artium Baccalaureus studies at the University of California, Berkeley with honors in 1972 . He then moved to Stanford University , where he received his Ph.D. graduated in economics. As an assistant professor and associate professor , he was subsequently at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before he was appointed full professor there in 1985. In 2005 he followed a call from the University of California, Irvine . He is a member of the Institute of Transportation Studies and the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences the UCI.

Brueckner researches and teaches in the areas of urban economics with a focus on the economics of the public sector and housing finance as well as industrial organization , with a focus on aviation . Together with Richard Muth and Edwin Mills , he made important contributions to the development of the model of the monocentric urban structure .

The following list shows books published by Brueckner, and he has also written numerous magazine articles and working papers.

Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 4th edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 1-84064-992-5 , pp. 124-125

Jan Brueckner at the University of California, Irvine
Jan Brueckner in the IDEAS database
Literature by and about Jan Brueckner in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Brueckner, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brueckner, Jan Keith (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berkeley , California