2026 Ivo Welch: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	53	1152	1023	697	602	177	51828

Overview

Ivo Welch is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily addresses topics within economics, econometrics, and finance, contributing extensively to these fields through various publications and collaborations.

Their main fields of study include:

Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these broad areas, Welch's subfields include:

Economics and Econometrics
Finance
Management Science and Operations Research
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Sociology and Political Science

Welch's work addresses a range of topics, notably:

Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Housing Market and Economics
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Game Theory and Applications
Insurance and Financial Risk Management
Media Influence and Politics
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Welch include:

The Wisdom of the Robinhood Crowd, 2022, The Journal of Finance
Simply Better Market Betas, 2022, Critical Finance Review

Other notable papers in the broader set of collaborations with others include:

A Comprehensive 2022 Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction, 2024, Review of Financial Studies
Information Cascades and Social Learning, 2024, Journal of Economic Literature
A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction II, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Welch frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

Sushil Bikhchandani
David Hirshleifer
Omer Tamuz
Amit Goyal
Athanasse Zafirov

Their publications appear predominantly in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
Review of Financial Studies
The Journal of Finance
Journal of Economic Literature

Best Publications

A theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom and cultural change as informational Cascades

Sushil Bikhchandani;David Hirshleifer;Ivo Welch

9986
Citations
A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades

Sushil Bikhchandani;David Hirshleifer;Ivo Welch

9914
Citations
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations

Jay R. Ritter;Ivo Welch

3971
Citations
Earnings Management and the Long‐Run Market Performance of Initial Public Offerings

Siew Hong Teoh;Ivo Welch;T. J. Wong

3777
Citations
A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction

Ivo Welch;Amit Goyal

3411
Citations
Earnings management and the underperformance of seasoned equity offerings

Siew Hong Teoh;Ivo Welch;T.J. Wong

3319
Citations
Learning from the behavior of others : conformity, fads, and informational cascades

Sushil Bikhchandani;David Hirshleifer;Ivo Welch

3014
Citations
Seasoned Offerings, Imitation Costs, and the Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings

Ivo Welch

2521
Citations
A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades

Sushil Bikhchandani;Ivo Welch;Ivo Welch;David A. Hirshleifer;David A. Hirshleifer

2258
Citations
Sequential Sales, Learning, and Cascades

Ivo Welch

2084
Citations
Capital Structure and Stock Returns

Ivo Welch

1855
Citations
Rational herding in financial economics

Andrea Devenow;Ivo Welch

1824
Citations
A Theory of Dividends Based on Tax Clienteles

Franklin Allen;Antonio E. Bernardo;Ivo Welch

1529
Citations
Herding among security analysts

Ivo Welch

1095
Citations
Investor Sentiment Measures

Lily Qiu;Ivo Welch

1093
Citations
Predicting the Equity Premium with Dividend Ratios

Amit Goyal;Ivo Welch

1057
Citations
The Costs of Bankruptcy: Chapter 7 Liquidation versus Chapter 11 Reorganization

Arturo Bris;Ivo Welch;Ning Zhu

856
Citations
On the Evolution of Overconfidence and Entrepreneurs

Antonio E. Bernardo;Ivo Welch

824
Citations
Portfolio Performance Manipulation and Manipulation-proof Performance Measures

William Goetzmann;Jonathan Ingersoll;Matthew Spiegel;Ivo Welch

772
Citations
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations

Ivo Welch;Ivo Welch;Jay R. Ritter

741
Citations
Issuer Expenses and Legal Liability in Initial Public Offerings

Randolph P. Beatty;Ivo Welch

723
Citations
An empirical investigation of IPO returns and subsequent equity offerings

Narasimhan Jegadeesh;Narasimhan Jegadeesh;Mark Weinstein;Ivo Welch

678
Citations
Views of Financial Economists on the Equity Premium and on Professional Controversies

Ivo Welch

666
Citations
Corporate research & development investments international comparisons

Sanjai Bhagat;Ivo Welch

607
Citations
Culture, Information, and Screening Discrimination

Bradford Cornell;Ivo Welch

551
Citations
A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction

Amit Goyal;Ivo Welch

123
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Hirshleifer University of Southern California

William N. Goetzmann Yale University

Siew Hong Teoh University of California, Los Angeles

Matthew I. Spiegel Yale University

T.J. Wong University of Southern California

Alan Schwartz University of Illinois at Chicago

Jay R. Ritter University of Florida

Franklin Allen Imperial College London

Bradford Cornell University of California, Los Angeles

Narasimhan Jegadeesh Emory University

External Links

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