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Daniel Gropper

Daniel Gropper

Dean and Professor
Finance Department

Biography

Dan Gropper is the Dean of the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. A graduate of the University of Maryland and Florida State University, he joined FAU after 25 years at Auburn University, where he was the Luck Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs. During his time leading Auburn’s MBA programs, they added several new options and broke into the rankings for the first time, becoming recognized by Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, and the Financial Times. Before joining academia, he worked on telephone deregulation issues for the Florida Public Service Commission and then in the private sector for several years in the consulting firm of ERS Group.

At FAU, he leads one of the top-20 largest AACSB-accredited business schools in the United States, with over 9800 students across three campuses, and several programs ranked by U.S. News & World Report, the Financial Times and others. Dr. Gropper’s educational philosophy is that while business students need to know the most current technical skills in their area of specialization, they also need a broad education in the sciences and liberal arts so that they can think critically, communicate effectively, and be prepared to learn new skills as their careers progress.

Dr. Gropper has been recognized with several awards for his contributions in teaching, research and leadership, including the David Luck Professorship at Auburn University; he was honored as Luck Professor Emeritus by Auburn upon his departure. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and the Mont Pelerin Society, and he was a Richard Weaver Fellow of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. His research on how government regulation, technology, and other factors affect financial institution performance has been published the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His work on education issues has appeared in the Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Financial Education and the Academy of Management Learning and Education. His research has been cited more than twenty five hundred times by scholars around the world; he has also been quoted in such popular publications as The Economist and U.S. News & World Report, and has been highlighted by the London School of Economics blog.

Dr. Gropper’s business philosophy focuses on the primacy of a free enterprise economic system for several reasons; first and foremost, the moral superiority of a system that is based on voluntary exchange and personal freedom; second, the key technical role of prices in providing information and signals that are only generated in competitive markets; and third, because the overwhelming weight of evidence demonstrates that on average, individuals live longer, healthier, wealthier and happier lives in more economically free countries all around the world.

In the community, Dr. Gropper has served on the board of directors of the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, the TechGateway Committee for the Broward Alliance, and the Dalton Place Condo board. He previously served on the Southern Business Deans Board, the Advisory Board for Comerica Bank in Palm Beach County, and he chaired the Ft. Lauderdale Chamber Council of Economic Advisors in 2016.

In his free time, Dan is an enthusiastic golfer and fisherman.

Education

  • PhD (1989) Economics, Florida State University
  • MS (1985) Economics, Florida State University
  • BA (1981) Economics, University of Maryland

Intellectual Contributions

  • Garcia-Feijoo, Luis; Gropper, Daniel; Hossain, Md Miran; Javakhadze, David. (2024). The Role of Media Connections in Seasoned Equity Offerings, Journal of Financial Research, 47(3), 667-701
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel; Mixon, Franklin. (2022). Negotiation and bargaining power in the determination of administrative wages in academe, Managerial and Decision Economics, 43(7), 2935-2940
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Gropper, Daniel; Mixon, F.; Santoyo, J.. (2019). Academic scholarship, organization prestige and the earnings of U.S. business school deans, Managerial and Decision Economics, 40(7), 823-837
  • Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel; Hartarska, Valentina; Mixon, Jr., Franklin. (2015). Economic Freedom and Microfinance Efficiency in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 168-177
  • Gropper, Daniel; Jahera, Jr., John; Park, Jung. (2015). Political power, economic freedom and Congress: Effects on bank performance, Journal of Banking and Finance, 60, 76-92
  • Gropper, Daniel; Jahera, Jr., John; Park, Jung. (2013). Does it help to have friends in high places? Bank stock performance and congressional committee chairmanships, Journal of Banking and Finance, 37, 1986-1999
  • Mixon, Franklin; Wu, Tong; Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel; Hartarska, Valentina. (2012). Does Input Substitutability in Banking Differ across Accession and Non-Accession Countries in Central and Eastern Europe?, Journal of Economic Integration, 27, 195-205
  • Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel; Hartarska, Valentina. (2012). Microfinance Institution Costs: Effects of Gender Subsidies, and Technology, Journal of Financial Economic Policy, 4(4), 292-304
  • Liang, Ping; Gropper, Daniel; Caudill, Steven. (2011). What Determines the Foreign Ownership Share of a Country's Banking Assets?, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, 14(3), 535-561
  • Gropper, Daniel; Lawson, Robert; Thorne, Jere. (2011). Economic Freedom and Happiness, Cato Journal, 31(2), 237-256
  • Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel; Hartarska, Valentina. (2009). Which Microfinance Institutions are Becoming More Cost-effective with Time? Evidence from a Mixture Model, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 41(4), 651-672
  • Kondeas, Alexander; Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel; Raymond, Jennie. (2008). Deregulation and Productivity Changes in Banking: Evidence from European Unification, Applied Financial Economics Letters, 4, 193-197
  • Gropper, Daniel. (2007). Does the GMAT Matter for Executive MBA Students: Some empirical evidence, Academy of Management Learning and Education, 6(2), 206-216
  • Bertus, Mark; Gropper, Daniel; Hinkelmann, Christoph. (2006). Distance Education and MBA Student Performance in Finance Classes, Journal of Financial Education, 32, 25-36
  • Gropper, Daniel; Jahera, Jr., John. (2005). CEO compensation and the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work, Corporate Finance Review, 9(6), 19-28
  • Hobbs, Bradley; Gropper, Daniel. (2005). Human Capital Indicators and Academic Success in Executive MBA Programs: A Multi-Program Study, Journal of Executive Education, 4(1), 43-54
  • Gropper, Daniel; Hudson, Carl. (2003). A Note on Savings and Loan Ownership Structure and Expense Preference: A Re-examination, Journal of Banking and Finance, 27(10), 2003-2014
  • Caudill, Janice; Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel. (2001). Charter Status, Ownership Type, and Efficiency in the Thrift Industry, Applied Financial Economics, 11(2), 147-155
  • Gropper, Daniel; Caudill, Steven; Beard, T.R.. (1999). Estimating Multiproduct Cost Functions Over Time Using a Mixture of Normals, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 11(3), 201-218
  • Barth, James; Gropper, Daniel; Jahera, John. (1998). A Multi-Country Analysis of Bank Capital and Earnings, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, 1(2), 123-155
  • Beard, T.R.; Gropper, Daniel; Raymond, Jennie. (1998). Bill Averaging Programs and Consumer Behavior: Theory and Evidence, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 13, 19-35
  • Guo, Jeff; Gibson, J. Tyrone; Gropper, Daniel; Oswald, Sharon; Barker, Kenneth. (1998). Empirical Investigation of Direct Costs-of-Illness and Healthcare Utilization of Medicaid Diabetes Mellitus Patients, American Journal of Managed Care, 4(10), 1433-1446
  • Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel. (1997). A Quality-Adjusted Price Index for Mainframe Computers, Applied Economics, 29, 1605-1610
  • Beard, T.R.; Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel. (1997). The Diffusion of Production Processes in the U.S. Banking Industry: A finite mixture approach, Journal of Banking and Finance, 21, 721-740
  • Anderson, Seth; Coleman, Jay; Gropper, Daniel; Sunquist, Harlan. (1996). A Comparison of the Performance of Open and Closed-end Investment Companies, Journal of Economics and Finance, 20(3), 3-11
  • Gropper, Daniel; Oswald, Sharon. (1996). Regulation, Deregulation and Managerial Behavior: New Evidence on Expense Preference in Banking, Applied Financial Economics, 6, 1-7
  • Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel; Stephens, T.. (1996). The Effect of Charter Status on Savings and Loan Resolution Costs, Applied Economics Letters, 3, 293-297
  • Caudill, Steven; Ford, Jon; Gropper, Daniel. (1995). Frontier Estimation and Firm Specific Technical Inefficiency Measures in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 13(1), 105-111
  • Gropper, Daniel; Beard, T.R.. (1995). Insolvency, Moral Hazard, and Expense Preference Behavior: Further Evidence for U.S. Savings and Loan Associations, Managerial and Decision Economics, 16, 607-617
  • Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel; Peng, Ter-Chao. (1995). Predicting Net Revenues from State Supported Lotteries, Journal of Business Forecasting, 14, 11-15
  • Gropper, Daniel. (1995). Product Line Deregulation and the Cost Structure of U.S. Savings and Loan Associations, Applied Economics, 27, 183-191
  • Beard, T.R.; Sweeney, George; Gropper, Daniel. (1995). Subsidy-Free Pricing of Interruptible Service Contracts, Energy Economics, 17, 53-58
  • Raymond, Jennie; Beard, T.R.; Gropper, Daniel. (1993). Modeling the Consumer's Decision to Replace Durable Goods: A Hazard Function Approach, Applied Economics, 25, 1287-1292
  • Bunn, Douglas; Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel. (1992). Crime in the Classroom: An Economic Analysis of Undergraduate Cheating Behavior, Journal of Economic Education, 23(3), 197-207
  • Gropper, Daniel. (1991). An Empirical Investigation of Changes in Scale Economies for the Commercial Banking Firm: 1979-1986, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 23(4), 718-727
  • Caudill, Steven; Beard, T.R.; Gropper, Daniel. (1991). Finite Mixture Estimation of Multiproduct Cost Functions, Review of Economics and Statistics, 73(4), 654-664
  • Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel. (1991). Test Structure, Human Capital and Student Performance on Economics Exams, Journal of Economic Education, 22(4), 303-306
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