Ivo Welch
...J. Fred Weston Distinguished Professor of Finance and
Economics
at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA
June 2024: Progressives on Campus (!).
Exchange Rates and Stock Returns
Finding Effects of Exchange Rate Movements on Publicly Traded US Corporations
Banerjee (1992), BHW (1992), Welch (1992)
Often misunderstood
Fat-Tailed Heuristics
Heuristics for Fat-Tailed Stock Return Distributions: —1.25 — log(Z). (Financial Analysts Journal, forthcoming.)
IPCC SSPs
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways: Explained, Critiqued, Replaced
FAQ on Climate Change
Set of Quick Q and A
AFA Demographics
Just curious...
InfoCascades With Many Choices
it's more robust than I thought!
Climate-Change & Economics
...and it's a free textbook!
More Video Sketches
more?
Inappropriate
views on lecturer Gordon Klein
Robinhood Investors
is there any crowd wisdom?
CAPM
did high-beta stocks even outperform low-beta stocks in the long-run?
Information Cascades
do many possible action choices render cascades unimportant?
BLOG
I do blog occasionally—sometimes, for therapy, sometimes for insight.
Most Recent Blog Posts
- UC filed a brief in favor of affirmative action in 2022. Fun Quiz: Rank UCLA undergrad students by most over-represented to most under-represented for (1) Asian-Americans; (2) Blacks; (2) Latinos; and (4) Whites. The answer is here.
- Musings about the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics.
- What Do You Need To Know About Climate Change?
- Will the Fukushima Radioactive Water Release Harm the West Coast of the US?
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