Jayant  R.  Kale (July 2002)

 

Department of Finance                                                                          2621 Cosmos Drive NE

J. Mack Robinson College of Business                                      Atlanta,  Georgia - 30345

Georgia State University                                                                       (404) 633-3622

Atlanta,  Georgia - 30303

(404) 651 - 2798

(404) 651-2630 (fax)

jkale@gsu.edu (e-mail)

 

Areas of Interest        :           Corporate Finance, Institutional Investment, Insurance

                                                (Theoretical and empirical)

 

Citizenship      :                       U.S.A.

 

Education       

University of Texas at Austin, Doctor of Philosophy, May 1987.  Major Field: Corporate Finance, Minor Field: International Business.  Thesis Chairman: Sankar De.

University of Texas at Dallas, August 1981-August 83. Graduate work in Finance and International Business.

Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore, India, Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (equivalent to MBA) April 1979. Major Field: Finance and Marketing (Double Major).

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Bachelor of Science (Honors), July 1975.  Major Fields: Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.

 

Work Experience              

Teaching

Georgia State University

Professor of Finance, Fall 1996 - to date.

Associate Professor of Finance, Fall 1991 - to date. 

Assistant Professor of Finance, Fall 1986 - 1991. 

Courses taught at GSU:

(i) MBA core and elective courses in Corporate Finance

(ii) Executive MBA second Finance course

(iii) Global E-Commerce Masters Program Finance course

(iv) Doctoral Seminars in Corporate Finance

(v) Doctoral Seminar in Valuation

(vi) Doctoral Seminar in Corporate Control

(vii) Undergraduate core and elective courses in Corporate Finance

(viii) Undergraduate and MBA elective course in International Finance.

Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Visiting Professor of Finance, July 1998 - August 1999.

            Taught an MBA course in Corporate Finance and an Undergraduate tutorial.  Also gave a         five-lecture seminar in corporate finance to research students and faculty.

University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Instructor in Finance, Fall 1984 - 1986.

            Taught the Undergraduate capstone seminar in Corporate Finance.

University of Otago (New Zealand)

Visiting Scholar, October 1997

University of Otago (New Zealand)

Visiting Scholar, October 1994

Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research  (RMI Department, GSU)

Senior Research Associate, Fall 1992 to date

Non-academic

Executive, Commercial Division, Ballarpur Industries Limited, New Delhi, India, May 1979 - July 1981.

 

Research Awards

Faculty Recognition Award for Research, 1994, College of Business Administration, Georgia State University.

Eastern Finance Association 1992 Award for Outstanding Paper in Corporate Finance.

Eastern Finance Association 1991 Award for Outstanding Paper in Options and Futures on Options.

Faculty Recognition Award for Research, 1990, College of Business Administration, Georgia State University.

Southern Finance Association 1989 Award for Best Paper in Corporate Finance (Sponsored by Dryden Press).

Financial Management Association 1989 Award for Best Paper in Corporate Finance (Sponsored by Irwin).

Financial Management Association 1988 Award for Best Paper in Investments (Sponsored by AAII).

Eastern Finance Association 1988 Award for Best Paper in Corporate Finance (Sponsored by Irwin).

Eastern Finance Association 1988 Award for Best Paper in Investments (Sponsored by AAII).

Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin, March 1986.

Research Grants

Georgia State University Research Grant Program (#92-040) for $3,000.

Summer research grant from the Center for Study in Regulated Industry, Georgia State University, 1993.

Summer research grant from the Center for Study in Regulated Industry, Georgia State University, 1992.

Summer research grant from the Center for Study in Regulated Industry, Georgia State University, 1991.

Research Grants from the College of Business Research Council, Georgia State University in Summer 1987, Fall 87, Summer 1988, Fall 1988, Winter 1988, Summer 1989, and Fall 1989, Spring 1990, Summer 1990, Summer 1991, Summer 1992, Fall 1992, Spring 1993, Summer 1993, Spring 1994, Summer 1994, Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Summer 1997, Summer 1998, Summer 1999, Summer 2000, Summer 2001.

Research grant from the Center for Study in Regulated Industry, Georgia State University, January 1987.

 

Publications:  Refereed Scholarly

"Financial Advisors and Shareholder Wealth Gains in Corporate Takeovers," (with O. Kini and H. Ryan), forthcoming in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

 “A Corporate Finance Perspective on Share Repurchases,” Asia Business Law Review, Volume 24, April 1999, 59-66. (Invited article)

"Unconditional and Conditional Takeover Offers: Experimental Evidence," (with T. Noe), Review of Financial Studies, Volume 10, No.3, 1997, 735-766.

"Characteristics of Common Stock Holdings of Insurance Companies," (with S. Badrinath and H. Ryan), Journal of Risk and Insurance, Volume 63, No. 1, 1996, 49-76.

"Dutch Auction Share Repurchases," (with G. Gay and T. Noe), Economica, Volume 63, 1996, 57-80.

"Share Repurchase Announcement Returns under Shareholder Heterogeneity," (with G. Gay and T. Noe), in Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, Editor: C. F. Lee, Jai Press Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut, Volume 4, 1996, 47-58.

"Of Shepherds, Sheep, and the Cross-autocorrelations in Equity Returns," (with S. Badrinath and T. Noe), Review of Financial Studies, Volume 8, No. 2, 1995, 401-430.

"Dilution Costs and Utility Regulation under Asymmetric Information," (with T. Noe), Journal of Regulatory Economics, Volume 7, 1995, 177-197.

"(Micro) Fads in Asset Prices: Evidence from the Futures Market," (with G. Gay, R. Kolb, and T. Noe), The Journal of Futures Markets, Volume 14, No. 6, 1994, 637-659, (Lead article in the issue) .

"Contingent Payments and Debt Contracts," (with S. De), Financial Management. 22, No. 2, Summer 1993, pp. 106-122.  (Security Design Special Issue)

"Segmented Markets, Differential Information, and Asset Return Dynamics," (with S. Badrinath and T. Noe), International Review of Economics and Finance 2, No. 3, 1993.

"Predictability and the Price Effects of Security Issues:  Some Empirical Evidence," (with T. Noe, J. Payne, and Y. Shin), Business Science: Theory and Practice, Ed. S. G. Amin, Academy of Business Administration, 1993, pp. 491-498.

"Taxes, Financial Distress, and Corporate Capital Structure," (with T. Noe), Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 32, 1992, 71-83.

"The Effect of Business Risk on Corporate Capital Structure: Theory and Evidence,"  (with T. Noe and G. Ramirez), The Journal of Finance, Volume 46, No. 5, December 1991.

"Share Repurchase Mechanisms:  A Comparative Analysis of Efficacy, Shareholder Wealth, and Corporate Control Effects," (with G. Gay and T. Noe), Financial Management, Volume 20, No. 1, Spring 1991, 44-59.

"Debt Equity Choice under Asymmetric Information and Taxes," (with T. Noe), Economics Letters, Volume 35, 1991, 215-219.

"Optimality of Coupon-Bearing Debt under Asymmetric Information," (with S. De), Economics Letters, Volume 34, 1990, 369-373.

"Dividends, Uncertainty, and Underwriting Costs under Asymmetric Information," (with T. Noe), The Journal of Financial Research, Volume 13, Number 4, Winter 1990, 265-277, (Lead article in the issue) .

_______.  Abstracted in "Cash Flow Uncertainty: A Case for Dividend Signalling," The Financial Review, Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting, Volume 22, Number 3, 1987.

"Risky Debt Maturity Choice in a Sequential Game Equilibrium," (with T. Noe), Journal of Financial Research, Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 1990, 155-165.

"Corporate Hedging under Personal and Corporate Taxation," (with T. Noe), Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume 11, 1990, 199-205.

"Share Repurchase through Transferable Put Rights:  Theory and Case Study," (with T. Noe and G. Gay), Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 25, Number 1, November 1989, 141-160.

"Patterns of Institutional Investment, Prudence, and the Managerial 'Safety-Net' Hypothesis," (with S.G. Badrinath and G. Gay), The Journal of Risk and Insurance, Volume 56, Number 4, December 1989, 605-629, (Lead article in the issue).

 _______.  Abstracted in Financial Management Collection, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter/Spring 1989.

"Noisy Juries and the Choice of Trial Mode in a Sequential Signalling Game:  Theory and Evidence," (with G. Gay, M. Grace, and T. Noe), The RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 1989, 196-213.

"Rankings for Stocks: Do They Make a Difference?," (with S. Badrinath and G. Gay), AAII Journal, Volume X, Number 6, July 1988. (Invited paper)

 

Publications: Books and Monographs, Non-refereed and Other

“Lectures in Corporate Finance,” (with R. Fendler), 1998, Simon &Schuster Custom Publishing, Needham Heights, MA.

"Repurchases Show Undervalued Stock," (with K. Ho), The Straits Times, Tuesday, September 29, 1998

 

Research in Progress

"Dynamic Risk Shifting by Fund Managers In a Tournament Model:  Theory and Evidence," (with P. Hu and A. Subramanian)

"Information in Bond Ratings and the Demand for Rating Services," (with S. De and H. Shahrur).

"The Evolution of Optimal Corporate Decision-making Architectures: Experimental Evidence," (with S. Pouget)

"Ownership Structure and Managerial Asset Selection:  The Case of Mutual vs. Stock Insurance Company Portfolio Investment Choices," (with T. Noe and C. Ryan)

"To pay or not to pay dividends: Dividend initiation decisions of IPO firms," (with O. Kini and J. Payne)

"Stability of IPO syndicates and IPO mispricing," (with J. Garner)

"Timing of seasoned equity Issues and financing choices after the IPO," (with J. Payne)

 

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

Southwestern Finance Association 1986, Dallas, TX

Southern Finance Association, 1986, New Orleans, LA

Eastern Finance Association, 1987, Baltimore, MD

Western Financial Association, 1987, San Diego, CA

Financial Management Association, 1987, Las Vegas. Nevada (two papers)

Southern Finance Association, 1987, Washington DC

Eastern Finance Association, 1988, Bal Harbor, FL (two papers)

Western Finance Association, 1988, Napa, CA

Financial Management Association, 1988, New Orleans, LA (two papers)

Econometric Society, 1988, New York, NY

American Finance Association, 1988, New York, NY

Eastern Finance Association, 1989, Philadelphia, PA

American Risk and Insurance Association, 1989, Denver, CO

Financial Management Association, October 20, 1989, Boston, MA (two papers)

Southern Finance Association, 1989, Orlando, FL

Eastern Finance Association, 1990, Charleston, SC (two papers)

ORSA/TIMS, 1990, Las Vegas, Nevada

Western Finance Association, 1990, Santa Barbara, CA (two papers)

American Risk and Insurance Association, 1990, Las Vegas, NE

European Finance Association, 1990, Athens, Greece

Financial Management Association, 1990, Orlando, FL

Eastern Finance Association, 1991, Hot Springs, VA

Western Finance Association, 1991, Jackson Hole, Wyoming (two papers)

Financial Management Association, 1991, Chicago, IL (two papers)

Econometric Society, 1992, New Orleans, LA

Eastern Finance Association, Tampa, 1992, FL

Western Finance Association, 1992, San Francisco, CA

Financial Management Association, 1992, San Francisco, CA

Southern Finance Association, 1992, Jacksonville, FL

Financial Management Association, 1993, Toronto, Canada

Southern Finance Association, 1993, New Orleans, LA

Financial Management Association, October 12, 1994, St, Louis, MO (two papers)

Eastern Finance Association, 1995, Hilton Head, SC (two papers)

Financial Management Association, 1995, New York, NY (two papers)

Southern Finance Association, 1995, Sarasota, FL

Eastern Finance Association, 1996, Charlotte, NC

Southern Finance Association, 1996, Key West, FL

Financial Management Association, 1997, Honolulu, HI (three papers)

Southern Finance Association, 1997, Baltimore, MD (two papers)

Eastern Finance Association, 1998, Williamsburg, VA

Western Finance Association, 1998, Monterey, CA

Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Meetings, 1998, Singapore

Eastern Finance Association, 1999, Miami, FL

Financial Management Association, 1999, Orlando, FL (two papers)

Southern Finance Association, 1999, Key West, FL

Financial Management Association, 2000, Seattle, WA

Eastern Finance Association, 2001, Charleston, SC

Twelfth Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, 2001, Piscataway, NJ

 

Research Paper Presentations Other than at Professional Meetings

Invited speaker on "New Financial Securities" at the seminar sponsored jointly by USAID and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) at Bombay in 1993 for an audience of over one hundred chief executives of financial and non-financial industries as well as senior officials from the Indian Ministries of Finance and Industry.

The University of Florida

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Georgia Institute of Technology

Southern Methodist University

Boston College

Pennsylvania State University

University of Arizona

Arizona State University

Florida State University

Boston University

Emory University

University of Otago, New Zealand

Delhi School of Economics, India

UTI Institute of Capital Markets, Bombay, India

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

City University of New York (Baruch)

USAID-FICCI Conference on Capital Markets, Bombay, India

Seoul National University, S. Korea

Chonnam University, S. Korea

Pusan University, S. Korea

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Northeastern University

Oklahoma State University

Tulane University

Boston College

Louisiana State University

 

Participation (other than presentation) at Professional Meetings

Executive Committee member, Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, 2001 to date.

Program Committee member, Financial Management Association Meetings, San Antonio, October 2002

Discussant, Eastern Finance Association Meetings, Charleston, SC, April 2001

Program Committee member, Eastern Finance Association Meetings, Charlotte, April 1996

Program Committee member, Southern Finance Association Meetings, Key West, November 1991

Reviewer for the Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award, Southern Finance Association Meetings, Key West, November 1991

Program Committee Member, Financial Management Association Meetings, Orlando, October 1990

Program Committee Member, Eastern Finance Association Meetings, Philadelphia, April 1989

Session Chairman, Eastern Finance Association Meetings, Baltimore, April 1988

Discussant, Financial Management Association Meetings, New York, October 1986

 

Other Professional Activities

Ad-hoc reviewer for

            Journal of Finance

            Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

            Journal of Economics, Management and Strategy

            Journal of Financial Research

            Financial Management

            Financial Review

            Journal of Risk and Insurance

            Review of Financial Studies

            Southern Economic Journal

 

Supervision of Doctoral Dissertations

As Chairperson:

Yong-Kil Shin, "Essays on Anticipated versus Unanticipated Security Issues: Evidence on Optimal Capital Structure and Signalling Hypotheses."  Graduated in 1990

Janet D. Payne, "The Information Content of Repeated Equity Offerings." Graduated in 1992

Arthur J. Young, "Institutional Investors, Monitoring, and Firm Performance."  Graduated in 1994

Harley E. Ryan, Jr., "Resolution Preference, Managerial Myopia and Market Valuation: An Empirical Test."  Graduated in 1994

Roy A. Wiggins, III, "Firm Performance and the Structure of Executive Compensation Schemes: An Empirical Analysis."  Graduated in 1995

Jacqueline G. Faught, "An Empirical Analysis of IPO Syndicates." Graduated in 1998

Ping Hu, "Two Essays on Mutual Fund Risk-Taking and Flow-Performance Relationship" Graduated in 2001

Husayn Shahrur, "On the Wealth Effects of Horizontal Mergers: Evidence from Input Output Markets," Proposal successfully defended February 2002

Ekaterina Emm, "Corporate Efficiency and Corporate Diversification," Will defend proposal in 2002

As Committee Member:

Samanta B. Thapa, "Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Behavior of International Banks in Extending Credit to Less Developed Countries (LDCS)"  Graduated in 1988

Gabriel Ramirez, "The Effects of Capital Recovery Policies on the Valuation of Regulated Utilities."  Graduated in 1989

Kasim Lekan Alli, "Restricted Securities: An Empirical Analysis of Pricing and Impact on Shareholder Wealth."  Graduated in 1989

Kenneth Kwok-Hung Yung, "Essays on Information Effects in Capital Markets."  Graduated in 1989

Jinho Jeong, "Dividend Smoothing: An Investigation of the Firm's Payout Policy."  Graduated in 1991

 Gautam Goswami, "Debt Maturity Choice under Asymmetric Information: Theory and Evidence."  Graduated in 1992

Hang Zhang, "Bid Premium and Bidder Returns in Corporate Takeovers."  Graduated in 1992

Ronald Best, "Some Empirical Implications of Risk Neutrality for the Time Variation in Security Returns."  Graduated in 1992

Seksak Jumreornvong, "The Effect of Management Turnover on Compensation, Performance, and leverage policy: An Empirical Analysis.  Graduated in 1992

Chenyang Feng, "Essays on Stock Market Efficiency," Graduated in 1997

Beverly Marshall, "Unit IPOs," Graduated in 1998

Peter Dadalt, "Wealth Cffects of Corporate Divestiture," Graduated in 1998

David Rakowski, "Essays on Fund Flow Volatility," Proposal successfully defended in 2002

 

Served on numerous dissertation committees in the Department of Risk Management and Insurance as well as an external examiner for a dissertation at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

 

College Committee Assignments

Member, Research Program Committee 1987 to date.

Member, College E-Commerce Steering Committee, 2000

Member, the College E-Commerce Committee, 2000, 2000 to date

 

University Committee Assignments

Member, University Senate, 1995 - 1998  Member of Senate sub-committees for (i) Research and (ii) Athletics.

Faculty Advisor, "Student's International Meditation Society (Transcendental)," GSU.

Faculty Advisor, "GSU Indian Students Association," GSU.

 

Service Activities within the Academic Unit

Member, Steering Committee for the Department's Academic Program Review, Ongoing

Chair, Faculty Recruitment Committee, 2000-2001

Coordinator, Ph.D. Program in Finance at GSU, 1997 to date

Course Coordinator, MBA course BA 862, 1988 - 1991.

Chair, Committee to develop a departmental strategic plan, March 1992

Alternate Chair, Faculty Recruitment Committee, 1992-1993

Member, Faculty Recruitment Committees in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992

Member, Committee to Recruit for the Dobbs Chair in Finance, 1991

Member, Committee to develop the new MBA course "Core Concepts in Finance," 1990-1991