Ivo Welch

Ivo Welch
is a German-born economist and finance academic, the J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance at UCLA [Anderson School of Management].
His research, widely cited,

has focused on financial economics and informational cascades.
In addition to more than 50 journal articles,
his works include a Corporate Finance textbook,
as well as items in the popular press.
Welch is an National [Bureau of Economic Research] Research Associate, and has been editor of the 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] and Brown University's economics department.
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.