Ivo Welch
Born (1963-10-04) October 4, 1963
Schweinfurt, West Germany
NationalityAmerican
German
Alma materUniversity of Chicago, PhD 1991
University of Chicago, MBA 1988
Columbia University, BA 1985
Known forFinancial economics
Informational Cascades
Scientific career
FieldsEconomist
InstitutionsUCLA 2011-
Brown University 2004-2011
Yale University 2000-2005
UCLA 1989-2000
Doctoral advisorMilton 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, 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 40,000 cites in 2019, increasing by about 2,500 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.

References

  1. ↑ "Ivo Welch". www.ivo-welch.info.
  2. ↑ "Ivo Welch, Distinguished Professor of Finance, J. Fred Weston Chair in Finance". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Faculty Page.
  3. ↑ Welch, Ivo (2008). "About the Author (Ivo Welch)". Corporate Finance: An Introduction. ISBN 978-0321277992.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Ivo Welch at IDEAS". IDEAS. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  6. ↑ Welch, Ivo. Corporate Finance (Latest ed.).
  7. ↑ "Ivo Welch, Professor of Economics and Finance". Yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2004-08-14.
  8. ↑ "Ivo Welch, Professor of Economics and Finance". Brown University. Archived from the original on 2004-08-12. Retrieved December 8, 2004. Archived Faculty Page.
  9. ↑ "Ivo Welch". NBER.org. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  10. ↑ "Ivo Welch". SSRN. Elsevier. Author Page.
  11. ↑ "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business". Web of Science. 2006. Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  12. ↑ "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business". Web of Science. 2007. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
  13. ↑ "VWL-Ranking 2019". Handelsblatt. Handelsblatt.


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