Ivo Welch, a

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-born

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and finance academic. He is the J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance at

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. He completed his BA in computer science in 1985 at

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, and both his MBA and PhD in finance at the

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. His research has focused on

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and

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. Publications include articles in academic journals and the popular press, in addition to a self published Corporate Finance textbook. He was previously on the faculties of the

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(Professor of Economics and Finance) and

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's economics department (Professor of Financial Economics). He is an

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(NBER) Research Associate. He has been editor of th
Critical Finance Review
since inception. Professor Welch is a two-time recipient of the Michael Brennan Award. He ranked about 50th by downloads on

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. in 2014, but has since slipped to 100th (by 2021), both by downloads and by cites. In 2006, he ranked 54th on the Web of Science list of "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business"; in 2007 (the last year of the rankings), he ranked 57th. On

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, his work had gathered about 40,000 cites in 2019, increasing by about 2,500 cites per year thereafter. In the German

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VWL Rankings of economists with German background 2019, his life work was ranked second (behind

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) for finance professors and sixth among all economics professor. He is a

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2015 fellow.

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