User profiles for Gerald D. Gay

Gerald Gay

Georgia State University
Verified email at gsu.edu
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The underinvestment problem and corporate derivatives use

GD Gay, J Nam - Financial management, 1998 - JSTOR
We analyze the underinvestment problem as a determinant of corporate hedging policy. We
find evidence of a positive relation between a firm's derivatives use and its growth …

Patterns of institutional investment, prudence, and the managerial" safety-net" hypothesis

SG Badrinath, GD Gay, JR Kale - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1989 - JSTOR
This research analyzes the investment behavior of institutional portfolio managers within the
context of their fiduciary responsibility arising from handling client capital. The perspective is …

Window dressing in mutual funds

V Agarwal, GD Gay, L Ling - The Review of Financial Studies, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We provide a rationale for window dressing wherein investors respond to conflicting signals
of managerial ability inferred from a fund's performance and disclosed portfolio holdings. We …

Asymmetric information and corporate derivatives use

P DaDalt, GD Gay, J Nam - Journal of Futures Markets: Futures …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the relationship between derivatives use and the extent of asymmetric information
faced by the firm. Using alternative analyst forecast proxies for asymmetric information, …

Corporate derivatives use and the cost of equity

GD Gay, CM Lin, SD Smith - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2011 - Elsevier
We investigate the relation between derivatives use and corporations’ cost of equity capital.
Using a large sample of non-financial firms, we compute and analyze (i) the relative cost of …

A comparative analysis of futures contract margins

GD Gay, WC Hunter, RW Kolb - The Journal of Futures …, 1986 - search.proquest.com
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A further look at transaction costs, short sale restrictions, and futures market efficiency: the case of Korean stock index futures

GD Gay, DY Jung - Journal of Futures Markets: Futures, Options …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Persistent underpricing in the Korean stock index futures market is documented and alternative
explanations are examined. No‐arbitrage pricing bands are computed using alternative …

Analyst forecasts and price discovery in futures markets: The case of natural gas storage

GD Gay, BJ Simkins, M Turac - Journal of Futures Markets …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate analyst forecasts in a unique setting, the natural gas storage market, and study
the contribution of analysts in facilitating price discovery in futures markets. Using a high‐…

An investigation into seasonality in the futures market

GD Gay, TH Kim - The Journal of Futures Markets (1986-1998), 1987 - search.proquest.com
Gay is an Associate Professor of Finance at Georgia State University; and Tae-Hyuk Kim is an
Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Bridgeport, … where bo is Monday's average …

The quality option implicit in futures contracts

GD Gay, S Manaster - Journal of Financial Economics, 1984 - Elsevier
… In addition to assumptions (a) and (b) reported in the text, assumptions (c) and (d) given …
Under assumptions (c) and (d), the primary asset is not changing. However, whether the …