Faculty Research
Through its research mission, PFP explores:
financial planning- expenditures
- savings behavior and motives
- later life financial and economic well-being
- wealth accumulation and saving choices
- financial risk tolerance
- portfolio allocation
- financial ratios
- availability of credit to small businesses
- consumer debt management
- central policy issues
- retirement preparation
- household consumption patterns
Research in personal financial planning requires theory and applications with roots in the fields of economics and finance, with a statistical analysis with the often stated goal of finding answers to questions with a direct application to family well-being. A sampling of recent research citations follows.
