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Secrecy culture and audit opinion: Some international evidence
We examine whether and how auditors respond to audit risks arising from secrecy culture when making audit opinion decisions. Using a sample of international Big N auditors from 33 countries, we find strong and robust evidence that auditors are more likely to issue modified audit opinions to clients domiciled in countries with a strong secrecy culture. In addition, we find that the association between secrecy culture and auditors' propensity to issue modified audit opinions is less pronounced in countries with strong investor protection than that in countries with weak investor protection
Internal control and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China
This paper examines the role played by internal control and its five components (i.e., control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication, and monitoring) in alleviating future stock price crash risk. Using a unique dataset from China, we find evidence that internal control is negatively associated with future stock price crash risk. Specifically, control environment and monitoring are significantly and negatively associated with future stock price crash risk. Moreover, the negative association between internal control and crash risk is significantly more pronounced in firms with weak internal and external governance (i.e., audited by non-Big 4 auditors, located in provinces with low market development, and less conservative in accounting) and with poor ability to mitigate impacts of extreme negative events (i.e., non-state-owned enterprises). Our study highlights the delicate role of internal control as a mechanism in preventing crash of stock price
The orbifold cohomology of moduli of genus 3 curves
In this work we study the additive orbifold cohomology of the moduli stack of
smooth genus g curves. We show that this problem reduces to investigating the
rational cohomology of moduli spaces of cyclic covers of curves where the genus
of the covering curve is g. Then we work out the case of genus g=3.
Furthermore, we determine the part of the orbifold cohomology of the
Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of genus 3 curves that
comes from the Zariski closure of the inertia stack of M_3.Comment: 29 pages, 2 figures. Minor changes, to appear in Manuscripta Mat
Numerical renormalization group study of the 1D t-J model
The one-dimensional (1D) model is investigated using the density matrix
renormalization group (DMRG) method. We report for the first time a
generalization of the DMRG method to the case of arbitrary band filling and
prove a theorem with respect to the reduced density matrix that accelerates the
numerical computation. Lastly, using the extended DMRG method, we present the
ground state electron momentum distribution, spin and charge correlation
functions. The anomaly of the momentum distribution function first
discussed by Ogata and Shiba is shown to disappear as increases. We also
argue that there exists a density-independent beyond which the system
becomes an electron solid.Comment: Wrong set of figures were put in the orginal submissio
Linear in-plane magnetoconductance and spin susceptibility of a 2D electron gas on a vicinal silicon surface
In this work we have studied the parallel magnetoresistance of a 2DEG near a
vicinal silicon surface. An unusual, linear magnetoconductance is observed in
the fields up to T, which we explain by the effect of spin olarization
on impurity scattering. This linear magnetoresistance shows strong anomalies
near the boundaries of the minigap in the electron spectrum of the vicinal
system.Comment: (accepted to Phys. Rev. B
Relativistic Two-stream Instability
We study the (local) propagation of plane waves in a relativistic,
non-dissipative, two-fluid system, allowing for a relative velocity in the
"background" configuration. The main aim is to analyze relativistic two-stream
instability. This instability requires a relative flow -- either across an
interface or when two or more fluids interpenetrate -- and can be triggered,
for example, when one-dimensional plane-waves appear to be left-moving with
respect to one fluid, but right-moving with respect to another. The dispersion
relation of the two-fluid system is studied for different two-fluid equations
of state: (i) the "free" (where there is no direct coupling between the fluid
densities), (ii) coupled, and (iii) entrained (where the fluid momenta are
linear combinations of the velocities) cases are considered in a
frame-independent fashion (eg. no restriction to the rest-frame of either
fluid). As a by-product of our analysis we determine the necessary conditions
for a two-fluid system to be causal and absolutely stable and establish a new
constraint on the entrainment.Comment: 15 pages, 2 eps-figure
Numerical approximation of the Euler-Poisson-Boltzmann model in the quasineutral limit
This paper analyzes various schemes for the Euler-Poisson-Boltzmann (EPB)
model of plasma physics. This model consists of the pressureless gas dynamics
equations coupled with the Poisson equation and where the Boltzmann relation
relates the potential to the electron density. If the quasi-neutral assumption
is made, the Poisson equation is replaced by the constraint of zero local
charge and the model reduces to the Isothermal Compressible Euler (ICE) model.
We compare a numerical strategy based on the EPB model to a strategy using a
reformulation (called REPB formulation). The REPB scheme captures the
quasi-neutral limit more accurately
Variational state based on the Bethe ansatz solution and a correlated singlet liquid state in the one-dimensional t-J model
The one-dimensional t-J model is investigated by the variational Monte Carlo
method. A variational wave function based on the Bethe ansatz solution is newly
proposed, where the spin-charge separation is realized, and a long-range
correlation factor of Jastrow-type is included. In most regions of the phase
diagram, this wave function provides an excellent description of the
ground-state properties characterized as a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid; Both of
the amplitude and exponent of correlation functions are correctly reproduced.
For the spin-gap phase, another trial state of correlated singlet pairs with a
Jastrow factor is introduced. This wave function shows generalized Luther-Emery
liquid behavior, exhibiting enhanced superconducting correlations and
exponential decay of the spin correlation function. Using these two variational
wave functions, the whole phase diagram is determined. In addition, relations
between the correlation exponent and variational parameters in the trial
functions are derived.Comment: REVTeX 3.0, 27 pages. 7 figures available upon request
([email protected]). To be published in Phys. Rev. B 5
Luttinger Liquid Instability in the One Dimensional t-J Model
We study the t-J model in one dimension by numerically projecting the true
ground state from a Luttinger liquid trial wave function. We find the model
exhibits Luttinger liquid behavior for most of the phase diagram in which
interaction strength and density are varied. However at small densities and
high interaction strengths a new phase with a gap to spin excitations and
enhanced superconducting correlations is found. We show this phase is a
Luther-Emery liquid and study its correlation functions.Comment: REVTEX, 11 pages. 4 Figures available on request from
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