Ivo Welch

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Ivo Welch
Born (1963-10-04) October 4, 1963 (age 61)
Schweinfurt, West Germany
NationalityAmerican
German
Alma mater 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 [1] is a German-born economist and finance academic, the J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management. [2]

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His research, widely cited, [note 1] has focused on financial economics and informational cascades. [7] In addition to more than 50 journal articles, [8] his works include a Corporate Finance textbook, [9] (latterly self-published) as well as items in the popular press. [10]

Welch is an National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Research Associate, [11] and has been editor of the Critical Finance Review since inception. He is a two-time recipient of the Michael Brennan Award, and a Humboldt Foundation 2015 fellow. He was previously on the faculties of the Yale School of Management (Professor of Economics and Finance) [12] and Brown University's economics department (Professor of Financial Economics). [13]

Welch completed his BA in computer science in 1985 at Columbia University, and both his MBA and PhD in finance at the University of Chicago. [14]

Notes

  1. ↑ He ranked about 50th by downloads on SSRN, in 2014, but has since slipped to 100th (by 2021), both by downloads and by cites. [3] In 2006, he ranked 54th on the Web of Science list of "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business"; [4] in 2007 (the last year of the rankings), he ranked 57th. [5] 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, [6] his life work was ranked second (behind Roman Inderst) for finance professors and sixth among all economics professor.

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. ↑ "Ivo Welch". SSRN. Elsevier. Author Page.
  4. ↑ "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business". Web of Science. 2006. Archived from the original on January 19, 2008. Retrieved February 9, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business". Web of Science. 2007. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2008.
  6. ↑ "VWL-Ranking 2019". Handelsblatt.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Ivo Welch at IDEAS". IDEAS. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  9. ↑ Welch, Ivo. Corporate Finance (Latest ed.).
  10. ↑ published opinion pieces
  11. ↑ "Ivo Welch". NBER.org. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  12. ↑ "Ivo Welch, Professor of Economics and Finance". Yale.edu. Archived from the original on August 14, 2004.
  13. ↑ "Ivo Welch, Professor of Economics and Finance". Brown University. Archived from the original on August 12, 2004. Retrieved December 8, 2004. Archived Faculty Page.
  14. ↑ Welch, Ivo (2008). "About the Author (Ivo Welch)". Corporate Finance: An Introduction. ISBN   978-0321277992.


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