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] 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.