Brueckner named Chancellor’s Professor
Brueckner named Chancellor’s Professor
- August 20, 2015
- Distinction recognizes scholarly contributions in urban, public and transportation economics
Jan Brueckner, economics professor and department chair, has been named a UCI Chancellor’s
Professor. Granted for a five-year renewable term, the title recognizes scholars who
demonstrate unusual academic merit and exceptional achievement.
Brueckner specializes in urban and public economics, transportation economics, and
real estate finance. His work has been published in leading journals including the
American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Urban Economics, a journal where he served as editor for 16 years, 1991-2007. He is the author of
an innovative MIT Press textbook, Lectures in Urban Economics, which has been widely adopted in the U.S. and around the world.
In January, he was awarded the John Quigley Medal from the American Real Estate and
Urban Economics Association, an honor recognizing his work advancing real estate and
urban economics.
Brueckner received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and was a Distinguished Professor
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1985-2005, during which time
he earned the Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the university’s Commerce
Alumni Association. He came to UC Irvine in 2005 and has chaired the Department of
Economics since 2010.
With the addition of Brueckner, the total Chancellor’s Professor count at UCI comes
to 46, five of whom are in social sciences, including George Marcus, Kristen Monroe,
David Neumark and Charles Ragin.
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