Professor Reint E. Gropp, PhD

Current Position
since 1/21
Head of the Research Group Heterogeneity in Macro-Finance
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
since 1/20
Acting Head of the Department of Laws, Regulations and Factor Markets
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
since 11/14
President
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
since 10/14
Professor of Economics
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Research Interests
- financial economics
- macroeconomics
- corporate finance
- money and banking
Reint E. Gropp is the President of IWH and Professor of Economics at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg since 2014. He is acting head of the Department of Laws, Regulations and Factor Markets and head of the Research Group Heterogeneity in Macro-Finance at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). Reint E. Gropp is Associate Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and serves as consultant for various central banks.
Reint E. Gropp studied economics at the universities of Freiburg and Wisconsin-Madison, where he obtained a PhD in 1994. Prior to his appointment at the IWH, he held the endowed Chair for Sustainable Banking and Finance at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main and worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as the European Central Bank (ECB), where he was Deputy Head of the Financial Research Division.