University of Chicago, PhD 1991 University of Chicago, MBA 1988 Columbia University, BA 1985
Known for
Financial economics Informational Cascades
Scientific career
Fields
Economist
Institutions
UCLA 2011- Brown University 2004-2011 Yale University 2000-2005 UCLA 1989-2000
Doctoral advisor
Milton Harris (thesis advisor)
Ivo Welch, a German-born [1] economist and finance academic. He is the J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management.[2]
He completed his BA in computer science in 1985 at Columbia University, and both his MBA and PhD in finance at the University of Chicago.[3]
His research has focused on financial economics and informational cascades.[4]
Publications include articles in academic journals[5] and the popular press,[which?] in addition to a self published Corporate Finance textbook.[6]
He was previously on the faculties of the Yale School of Management (Professor of Economics and Finance)[7] and Brown University's economics department (Professor of Financial Economics).[8]
He is an National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Research Associate.[9] He has been editor of the Critical Finance Review since inception.
Professor Welch is a two-time recipient of the Michael Brennan Award. He ranked about 50th by downloads on SSRN. in 2014, but has since slipped to 100th (by 2021), both by downloads and by cites.[10] In 2006, he ranked 54th on the Web of Science list of "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business";[11] in 2007 (the last year of the rankings), he ranked 57th.[12] On Google Scholar, his work had gathered about 53,000 cites in 2024, increasing by about 2,800 cites per year thereafter. In the German Handelsblatt VWL Rankings of economists with German background 2019,[13] his life work was ranked second (behind Roman Inderst) for finance professors and sixth among all economics professor. He is a Humboldt Foundation 2015 fellow.
^"Ivo Welch". www.ivo-welch.info.
^"Ivo Welch, Distinguished Professor of Finance, J. Fred Weston Chair in Finance". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Faculty Page.
^Welch, Ivo (2008). "About the Author (Ivo Welch)". Corporate Finance: An Introduction. ISBN 978-0321277992.
^Bikhchandani, Suchil; Hirshleifer, David; Welch, Ivo (1992). "A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades". Journal of Political Economy. 100 (5): 992–1026. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.295.578. doi:10.1086/261849. JSTOR 2138632. S2CID 7784814.
^"Ivo Welch at IDEAS". IDEAS. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
^Welch, Ivo. Corporate Finance (Latest ed.).
^"Ivo Welch, Professor of Economics and Finance". Yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2004-08-14.
^"Ivo Welch, Professor of Economics and Finance". Brown University. Archived from the original on 2004-08-12. Retrieved December 8, 2004. Archived Faculty Page.
^"Ivo Welch". NBER.org. National Bureau of Economic Research.
^"Ivo Welch". SSRN. Elsevier. Author Page.
^"Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business". Web of Science. 2006. Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
^"Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business". Web of Science. 2007. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
IvoWelch, a German-born economist and finance academic. He is the J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He completed...
Santa Rosa, CA, pp. 173–189. Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, IvoWelch. October 1992. "A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change...
117(4), 1133–1191. • Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, and IvoWelch, 1992. "A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational...
Applications and Pitfalls" Archived 2017-08-15 at the Wayback Machine. Ch 13 in IvoWelch (2017). Corporate Finance: 4th Edition George Chacko and Carolyn Evans...
CJN. "Goldfarb Family Brings DKNY Back to New York". The Forward. 2016. IvoWelch. "G-III Apparel Group Inc. § The Company and Its Management" (PDF). Aron...
Theory of Corporate Finance. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691125562. IvoWelch (2017). Corporate Finance (4th ed.). ISBN 9780984004928. Jensen, Michael...
Create Value?" in Capital Budgeting Applications and Pitfalls. Ch 13 of IvoWelch (2022). Corporate Finance, 5 Ed. IAW Publishers. ISBN 978-0984004904 Allan...
"information cascades,"] by Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, and IvoWelch. "information sharing among firms" by Xavier Vives. "information technology...
paper; Duke University - Center for Health Policy, Law and Management) IvoWelch (2022). Pro Forma Financial Statements and Valuation. Chapter 21 in Corporate...
Monetary Fund 2001 ISBN 1-58906-030-X page 100 [1] Andrea Devenow and IvoWelch Rational herding in financial economics in European Economic Review Volume...
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"information cascades," by Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer and IvoWelch. Abstract. Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine • Alex Cukierman...
David N. Weil (A.B. 1982) – James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics IvoWelch – CV Starr Chair of Finance and Economics (2004–11) Sandra Lynn Barnes...
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performs his first wedding, for a young couple named Walter Shepherd (Tommy Ivo) and Elsie Gregg, Uncle Joe realizes that he forgot to file the documentation...
JSTOR 2118364. S2CID 154723838. Bikhchandani, Sushil; Hirshleifer, David; Welch, Ivo (1992). "A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational...
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ISBN 978-1-032-01930-7 Goetzmann, William; Ingersoll, Jonathan; Spiegel, Matthew; Welch, Ivo (2002), Sharpening Sharpe Ratios (PDF), National Bureau of Economic Research...
Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2019. Welch, Alex (October 10, 2018). "American Music Awards, 'This is Us,' everything...
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17-07-2007 Brochure of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors, page 30 "Ivo Pogorelich". Xavier University. "biography – Ivo Pogorelich". UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors...
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