FACULTY PROFILE

Thomas C. Buchmueller
Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

Tom Buchmueller is a health economist whose main area of research focuses is the economics of health insurance and related public policy issues.  His recent work has examined the relationship between employer-sponsored insurance and labor market outcomes, interactions between the public sector and private insurance markets and consumer demand for health insurance.

Professor Buchmueller received his BA in Economics from Carleton College and his PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.  Prior to joining the Ross School faculty, he taught in the business school at the University of California, Irvine.  He recently spent 9 months in Australia as a Packer Policy Fellow.  He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of York (UK), INSEAD and CREDES in France and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.  He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a  co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and is on the editorial board of Inquiry, a health policy journal.

internet

tbuch@umich.edu

Faculty profile at the Ross School of Business

telephone

734-764-5933 (Office)

postal address

Prof. Thomas C. Buchmueller

University of Michigan Ross School of Business

701 Tappan St.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

office

Prof. Buchmueller's office is located in Executive Residence Hall, room ER7611.