Billy P. Helms

Billy P. Helms
Professor of Finance and Head, Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies
Economics, Finance & Legal Studies
Office: 206 Alston Hall, 205-348-8067
Specialty Areas:
Investments and Corporate Finance.
Education:
Auburn University (B.S. and M.S.), University of Tennessee (Ph.D.).
Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:
Dr. Helms has published articles in a number of journals, including Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Futures Markets, Applied Economics, and Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv.

Selected Publications

  • "Distribution of Prices for Commodity Futures." (With Ghassem Homifar.) Advances in Futures and Options Research. December 1990.
  • "An N Stage, Fractional Period, Quarterly Dividend Discount Model." (With R. Brooks.) Financial Review.  November 1990.
  • "An Examination of Basis Risk Due to Estimation." (With J. T. Moser.) Journal of Futures Markets.  October 1990.
  • "Put-Call Futures Parity and Arbitrage Opportunity in the Market for Options on Gold Futures Contracts."   (With R. Followill.) Journal of Futures Markets. August 1990.
  • "Moment Ordering Conditions and Stochastic Dominance Tests." (With W. H. Jean.) Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. December 1988.
  • "Presidential Elections and the Behavior of Stocks in the Defense Industry." (With W.L. Randolph, G. Homifar and M. Haddad.) Applied Economics. July 1988.
  • "The Identification of Stochastic Dominance Efficient Sets by Moment Combination Ordering." (With W. H. Jean.) Journal of Banking and Finance. June 1988.
  • "Necessary Conditions for Stochastic Dominance: A General Approach." (With W. H. Jean.) Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis. 1988.
  • "Stochastic Dominance as a Decision Model." (With W. H. Jean.) Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics. February 1986.
  • "An Examination of the Distribution of Futures Price Changes." (With T. F. Martell.) Journal of Futures Markets.  August 1985.
  • "Memory in the Commodity Futures Markets." (With F. Kaen and R. Rosenman.) Journal of Futures Markets.  September 1984.
  • "Geometric Mean Approximations." (With W. H. Jean.) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.  September 1983.
  • "Stochastic Dominance Among Log Normal Prospects." (With H. Tehranian.) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.  June 1982.