Ivo Welch

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1.

A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations

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A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-01
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Jay R. Ritter and Ivo Welch
University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 117

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IPOs

A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations

NBER Working Paper No. w8805
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2022
Ivo Welch and Jay R. Ritter
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
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A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations

Posted: 30 Dec 2003
Ivo Welch and Jay R. Ritter
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate

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Portfolio Performance Manipulation and Manipulation-Proof Performance Measures

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Portfolio Performance Manipulation and Manipulation-Proof Performance Measures

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-08, AFA 2003 Washington, DC Meetings
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Mar 2002
William N. Goetzmann, Jonathan E. Ingersoll, Matthew I. Spiegel and Ivo Welch
Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Yale University - Yale School of Management, International Center for Finance and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Portfolio Performance Manipulation and Manipulation-Proof Performance Measures

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 5, pp. 1503-1546, 2007
Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Jonathan E. Ingersoll, Matthew I. Spiegel, William N. Goetzmann and Ivo Welch
Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Yale University - Yale School of Management, International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Capital Structure and Stock Returns

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Capital Structure and Stock Returns

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Jan 2002
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 108

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Capital Structure and Stock Returns

Posted: 25 Jan 2004
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Investor Sentiment Measures

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Citation 43

Investor Sentiment Measures

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Sep 2004
Lily Xiaoli Qiu and Ivo Welch
Brown University - Department of Economics and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 63

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investor sentiment, consumer confidence

Investor Sentiment Measures

NBER Working Paper No. w10794
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 03 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2022
Lily Xiaoli Qiu and Ivo Welch
Brown University - Department of Economics and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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The Top Achievements, Challenges, and Failures of Finance

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Nov 2001
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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The Link between Fama-French Time-Series Tests and Fama-Macbeth Cross-Sectional Tests

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2008
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Asset Pricing, Fama-French, Fama-Macbeth, APT, CAPM

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Research Roundtable Discussion: The Market Risk Premium

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Jun 2000
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction

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Citation 789

A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 04-11
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 30 Apr 2004
Amit Goyal and Ivo Welch
University of Lausanne and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Equity Premium, Prediction, Stock Market

A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction

NBER Working Paper No. w10483
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 May 2004 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2022
Amit Goyal and Ivo Welch
University of Lausanne and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 167

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A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 1455-1508, 2008
Posted: 08 Aug 2008
Ivo Welch and Amit Goyal
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Lausanne

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Predicting the Equity Premium with Dividend Ratios

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Citation 222

Predicting the Equity Premium with Dividend Ratios

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-04
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Apr 1999
Amit Goyal and Ivo Welch
University of Lausanne and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Predicting the Equity Premium with Dividend Ratios

NBER Working Paper No. w8788
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2022
Amit Goyal and Ivo Welch
University of Lausanne and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 25

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Common Problems in Capital Structure Research: The Financial-Debt-To-Asset Ratio, and Issuing Activity vs. Leverage Changes

AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2010
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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capital structure

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A Critique of Recent Quantitative and Deep-Structure Modeling in Capital Structure Research and Beyond

AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2013
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Quantitative Structural Modeling

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Liquidity and Financial Market Runs

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Jul 2003
Antonio E. Bernardo and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 9

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The Equity Premium Consensus Forecast Revisited

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 27 Sep 2001
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Equity Premium

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A Note on 'Predicting Returns with Financial Ratios'

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Jan 2004
Ivo Welch and Amit Goyal
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Lausanne
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A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction II

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 21-85
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 24 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2021
Amit Goyal, Ivo Welch and Athanasse Zafirov
University of Lausanne, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of California
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equity premium, prediction, out-of-sample, skepticism

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The Wisdom of the Robinhood Crowd

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The Wisdom of the Robinhood Crowd

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2021
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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The Wisdom of the Robinhood Crowd

NBER Working Paper No. w27866
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2022
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Simply Better Market Betas

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Simply Better Market Betas

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 May 2019 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2021
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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market-beta, robust estimation, winsorization

Simpler Better Market Betas

NBER Working Paper No. w26105
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 02 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 01 May 2022
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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The Consensus Estimate for the Equity Premium by Academic Financial Economists in December 2007

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2009
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 40

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An Economic Approach to the Psychology of Change: Amnesia, Inertia, and Impulsiveness

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An Economic Approach to the Psychology of Change: Amnesia, Inertia, and Impulsiveness

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-47, Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1306, Dice Working Paper No. 2000-4
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 May 2001 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2009
David A. Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch
Marshall School of Business, USC and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Memory, Inertia, Amnesia, Behavioral Economics

An Economic Approach to the Psychology of Change: Amnesia, Inertia, and Impulsiveness

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 379-421, Fall 2002
Posted: 01 Dec 2008
David A. Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch
Marshall School of Business, USC and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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

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Citation 29

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

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 27 Apr 2000
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 29

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

Posted: 05 Jul 2000
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 100, No. 5, pp. 992-1026, October 1992
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 18 May 2009
Sushil Bikhchandani, Ivo Welch and David A. Hirshleifer
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Marshall School of Business, USC
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Citation 160

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Best Practice for Cost-of-Capital Estimates

Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. 17-4
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 04 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2017
Yaron Levi and Ivo Welch
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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cost of capital, capital budgeting, CAPM

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Who Should Pay for Bankruptcy Costs?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 May 2003
Ivo Welch, Arturo Bris and Alan Schwartz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), IMD International and Yale Law School
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On the Evolution of Overconfidence and Entrepreneurs

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On the Evolution of Overconfidence and Entrepreneurs

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Jul 2001
Antonio E. Bernardo and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Evolution, Overconfidence, Behavioral Economics

On the Evolution of Overconfidence and Entrepreneurs

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 28 Oct 2009
Antonio E. Bernardo and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Theoretical, Overconfidence, Self-efficacy, Management decisions, Startups, Groups, Risk orientation, Survival rates

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Reconciling Estimates of the Speed of Adjustment of Leverage Ratios

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2010
Peter Iliev and Ivo Welch
Pennsylvania State University - Department of Finance and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 63

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Capital Structure, Leverage Ratios, Speed of Adjustment

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Optimized vs. Sort-Based Portfolios

AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2009
Gerard Hoberg and Ivo Welch
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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book-to-market, HML, characteristics, factors

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The Costs of Bankruptcy

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Yale ICF Working Paper No. 04-13, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 07 Dec 2005
Arturo Bris, Ivo Welch and Ning Zhu
IMD International, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and China Academy of Financial Research (CAFR)
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Referee Recommendations

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2013
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 9

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Do Powerful Politicians Really Cause Corporate Downsizing?

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2015
Jason Snyder and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Earmarks, Investment

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Plausibility

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2015
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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causality, plausibility

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A Theory of Legal Presumptions

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Citation 25

A Theory of Legal Presumptions

USC Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 99-8
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 May 1999
Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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A Theory of Legal Presumptions

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Jul 2000
Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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The Optimal Concentration of Creditors

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Citation 42

The Optimal Concentration of Creditors

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Nov 2001
Ivo Welch and Arturo Bris
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and IMD International
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Banking, Capital Structure

The Optimal Concentration of Creditors

NBER Working Paper No. w8652
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Dec 2001 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2022
Arturo Bris and Ivo Welch
IMD International and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 3

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Aged and Recent Market Betas in Securities Pricing

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Dec 2009
Gerard Hoberg and Ivo Welch
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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market-beta, factor pricing, APT

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The Costs of Bankruptcy Chapter 7 Cash Auctions vs. Chapter 11 Bargaining

EFA 2004 Maastricht Meetings Paper No. 5155
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 03 Aug 2004
Arturo Bris, Ivo Welch and Ning Zhu
IMD International, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and China Academy of Financial Research (CAFR)
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Citation 14

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The Effect of Socially Activist Investment Policies on the Financial Markets: Evidence from the South African Boycott

London Business School Institute of Finance and Accounting working paper 222
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Nov 1996
Siew Hong Teoh, Ivo Welch and C. Paul Wazzan
UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Berkeley Research Group,LLC
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A Different Way to Estimate the Equity Premium (for CAPM and One-Factor Model Use Only)

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 24 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2008
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Beta, Capital Budgeting, CAPM

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Why is Bank Debt Senior? A Theory of Priority Based on Influence Costs

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Aug 1996
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 9

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Stock Return Outliers

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Nov 2017
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Ethics (Web Chapter)

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2015
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Sharpening Sharpe Ratios

NBER Working Paper No. w9116
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Aug 2002 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2022
William N. Goetzmann, Jonathan E. Ingersoll, Matthew I. Spiegel and Ivo Welch
Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Yale University - Yale School of Management, International Center for Finance and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Spurious Inference Caused by Time-Series Variation in Scaling: Real Estate Shocks Did Not Affect Corporate Investment

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2021
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 2

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collateral, real-estate, corporate investment

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A Model of Operational Slack: The Short-Run, Medium-Run, and Long-Run Consequences of Limited Attention

AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2016
Peter Iliev and Ivo Welch
Pennsylvania State University - Department of Finance and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Attention, Project Choice, Slack, Overinvestment, Diversification Discount

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Market-Beta and Downside Risk

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 14 May 2020
Yaron Levi and Ivo Welch
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Market Beta, Crash Risk

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Extended Stock Returns in Response to S&P 500 Index Changes

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2016
Nimesh Patel and Ivo Welch
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Shidler College of Business and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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S&P 500

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The Cost of Capital: If Not the CAPM, Then What?

Management and Business Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2021
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 02 Sep 2021
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Noise in Stock Returns as Natural Experiments: Forward- and Backward-Looking Market-Betas, Momentum, and Reversals

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 14 May 2009
Gerard Hoberg and Ivo Welch
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Leverage and Preemptive Selling of Financial Institutions

AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 31 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2010
Antonio E. Bernardo and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 2

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Leverage, Banks, Financial Institutions, Preemptive Selling, Fire Sales

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Information Cascades and Social Learning

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Information Cascades and Social Learning

Number of pages: 133 Posted: 24 May 2021
Sushil Bikhchandani, David A. Hirshleifer, Omer Tamuz and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management, Marshall School of Business, USC, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Information Cascades, Social Learning, Herding, Fads, Fashion, Conformity, Culture

Information Cascades and Social Learning

NBER Working Paper No. w28887
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 07 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2022
Sushil Bikhchandani, David A. Hirshleifer, Omer Tamuz and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management, Marshall School of Business, USC, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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A Model of Optimal Corporate Bailouts

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 May 2011 Last Revised: 05 May 2012
Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 3

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Government Bailout, Moral Hazard, GM, Chrysler, TARP

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The (Time-Varying) Importance of Disaster Risk

Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming July/August 2016
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2016
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 9

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black swans, disasters, catastrophes, dark events, equity premium

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Asset Redeployability, Liquidation Value, and Endogenous Capital Structure Heterogeneity

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 08 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2018
Antonio E. Bernardo, Alex Fabisiak and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Debt, Distress, Fire Sales, Redployability, Heterogeneity Endogenous Pricing

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Leverage- and Cash-Based Tests of Risk and Reward with Improved Identification

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2018
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 3

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Leverage, Risk, Reward, Quasi Experiments, Behavioral Finance

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A Quasi-Experimental Test of the Risk-Reward Paradigm

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A Quasi-Experimental Test of the Risk-Reward Paradigm

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 31 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2017
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Financing, Leverage, Capital Structure, Quasi-Experiments, Behavioral Finance

Levered Returns

NBER Working Paper No. w22150
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2022
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Are Interest Rates Really Low?

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Are Interest Rates Really Low?

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2018
Daniel R. Feenberg, Clinton Tepper and Ivo Welch
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Taxes, Interest Rates, Yields, Municipal Bonds, Treasuries

Are Interest Rates Really Low?

NBER Working Paper No. w24258
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2022
Daniel R. Feenberg, Clinton Tepper and Ivo Welch
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Capital Structure with Endogenous Liquidation Values

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2015
Antonio E. Bernardo, Alex Fabisiak and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Capital Structure, Liquidation Values, Financial Distress

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Designing Corporate Bailouts

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2017
Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, Columbia University - School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Citation 3

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Government Bailout, Moral Hazard, TARP, General Motors, Chrysler

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Chaney, Sraer and Thesmar (2012), The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment, and the American Economic Review

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 18 May 2022
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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real-estate, corporate investment

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Contracting Externalities and Mandatory Menus in the U.S. Corporate Bankruptcy Code

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2015
Antonio E. Bernardo, Alan Schwartz and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, Yale Law School and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Bankruptcy, Opt-Out Choice, Chapter 11

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Columbus' Egg: The Real Determinant of Capital Structure

NBER Working Paper No. w8782
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2022
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Optimal Debt Financing and the Pricing of Illiquid Assets

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Mar 2011
Antonio E. Bernardo and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Liquidity, Returns, Volatility, Limits to Arbitrage

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The Value of Financial Flexibility: Equilibrium Liquidation Values and Endogenous Capital Structure Heterogeneity

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 12 Dec 2016
Antonio E. Bernardo, Alex Fabisiak and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Capital Structure Theory

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The Closed-Form Solution to Bertrand Competition with Exogenous Entry Costs or Participation

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 11 Oct 2017
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Bertrand

63.

Financial Market Runs

NBER Working Paper No. w9251
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Oct 2002 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2022
Antonio E. Bernardo and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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64.

Voluntary Self-Sustaining Reciprocity

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2019
Alex Fabisiak and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Networks, Altruism, Reciprocity, Entry Barriers

65.

Two Common Problems in Capital Structure Research: The Financial-Debt-To-Asset Ratio and Issuing Activity Versus Leverage Changes

International Review of Finance, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-17, 2011
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Mar 2011
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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66.

Disaggregating the Increase in Tropical Cyclone Intensity in Kossin et al. (PNAS 2020)

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 May 2022 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2022
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Tropical Cyclones

67.

Video: Structural Estimation Drawbacks

Posted: 27 Sep 2012
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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68.

The Results of the Equity Premium January 2009 Survey

Posted: 08 Dec 2009
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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equity premium

69.

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

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Seasoned offerings, Signaling, Underpricing, Valuation, Business conditions, Stock offerings, Information asymmetry, Initial public offerings (IPO)

70.

Learning from the Behavior of Others: Conformity, Fads, and Informational Cascades

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 151-70, Summer 1998
Posted: 01 Dec 2008
Sushil Bikhchandani, David A. Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management, Marshall School of Business, USC and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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71.

A Personal FAQ on the Financial Crisis of 2008

Posted: 29 Oct 2008
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Financial Crisis 2008

72.

Information Cascades

THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS, Second Edition, Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, eds., Palgrave Macmillan/U.K., 2008
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2009
Sushil Bikhchandani, David A. Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management, Marshall School of Business, USC and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Information Cascades; Entry Written for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Posted: 14 Nov 2005
Sushil Bikhchandani, David A. Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management, Marshall School of Business, USC and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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information cascades, information aggregation, social learning, cultural evolution

74.

The Cross-Sectional Determinants of Corporate Capital Expenditures: A Multinational Comparison

Posted: 16 Jun 2002
Ivo Welch and David Wessels
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

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75.

Herding Among Security Analysts

Posted: 16 Aug 2001
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Herding, Imitation, Informational Cascades, Analysts

76.

Why is Bank Debt Senior? A Theory of Priority Among Creditors

Posted: 25 Sep 1999
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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77.

Institutional Memory, Inertia, and Impulsiveness

Posted: 02 Sep 1999
David A. Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch
Marshall School of Business, USC and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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78.

Legal Liability and Issuer Expenses in Ipos

Posted: 20 Dec 1998
Ivo Welch and Randolph P. Beatty
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting

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79.

Effect of Socially Activist Investment Policies on the Financial Markets: Evidence from the South African Boycott

Posted: 12 Nov 1998
Siew Hong Teoh, Ivo Welch and C. Paul Wazzan
UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Berkeley Research Group,LLC

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80.

Earnings Management and the Post-Issue Underperformance in Seasoned Equity Offerings

Posted: 10 Oct 1998
Siew Hong Teoh, Ivo Welch and T.J. Wong
UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Sothern California

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81.

G-Iii Apparel Group, Inc.

Posted: 16 Sep 1998
Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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82.

Earnings Management and the Post-Issue Underperformance of Seasoned Equity Offerings

Posted: 22 Aug 1998
Siew Hong Teoh, Ivo Welch and T.J. Wong
UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Sothern California

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83.

Rational Herding in Financial Economics

IFA 218-1995
Posted: 09 Jul 1998
Andrea Devenow and Ivo Welch
Movielink and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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84.

A Theory of Dividends Based on Tax Clienteles

Rodney L. White Center Working Paper No. 15-98
Posted: 25 Jun 1998
Franklin Allen, Antonio E. Bernardo and Ivo Welch
Imperial College London, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Culture, Information, and Screening Discrimination

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Culture, Information, and Screening Discrimination

JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, Vol. 104, No. 3, June 1996
Posted: 21 Jun 1996
Bradford Cornell and Ivo Welch
Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Culture, Information, and Screening Discrimination

Posted: 02 Feb 1995
Bradford Cornell and Ivo Welch
Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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