MichaelÌýGropper
- Assistant Professor
- FINANCE
- CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON CONSUMER FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING
Michael Gropper is an assistant professor of finance at the Leeds School of Business, É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ. His research focuses on household finance, insurance, and retirement. Gropper studies how households save and invest over long time horizons as well as the forces that affect how employers offer retirement benefits to their employees.
Michael has published in theÌýJournal of Finance and his work on insurance and retirement has been featured in outlets such asÌýPlanSponsor,ÌýInvestmentNews, andÌýBenefitsPro. His work on the effect of trust in retirement portfolio choice, coauthored with Julie Agnew, Angela Hung, Nicole Montgomery, and Susan Thorp, received an honorable mention from the International Centre for Pension Management.Ìý
Gropper received a B.B.A. from the College of William & Mary and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He currently teaches corporate finance in the undergraduate program. Prior to his academic career, Michael worked in economic consulting in Washington, D.C.