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Liquidity management around seasoned equity offerings
We investigate firms' liquidity practices around seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). We
broadly classify issuers on the basis of whether the firm belongs to an industry deemed
to be financially constrained or unconstrained. We find that constrained-industry issuers
tend to save more cash to conserve funding capacity in anticipating investment.
Unconstrained industry issuers, in contrast, carry high debt and limited cash reflecting a
sizable financial leash. We also find that the former firms experience significant cash
stockpiling following new equity issues, whereasforthe lattergroup, there is a significant
decline in long-term debt. In the long run, unconstrained issuers who aggressively manage
liquidity pre-issue have lower operating profit. However, the relation does not hold for
market-based performance because investors, observingthe liquidity information, quickly
discount stock value at the time of the offering. Rather, post-issue market underperformance
can be attributed to investors' downward revisions relating to the transitory
nature of investment opportunities
Strain-facilitated process for the lift-off of a Si layer of less than 20 nm thickness
We report a process for the lift-off of an ultrathin Si layer. By plasma hydrogenation of a molecular-beam-epitaxy-grown heterostructure of SiSb-doped-SiSi, ultrashallow cracking is controlled to occur at the depth of the Sb-doped layer. Prior to hydrogenation, an oxygen plasma treatment is used to induce the formation of a thin oxide layer on the surface of the heterostructure. Chemical etching of the surface oxide layer after hydrogenation further thins the thickness of the separated Si layer to be only 15 nm. Mechanisms of hydrogen trapping and strain-facilitated cracking are discussed
Quantum dilaton gravity as a linear dilaton conformal field theory
A model of matter-coupled gravity in two dimensions is quantized. The crucial
requirement for performing the quantization is the vanishing of the conformal
anomaly, which is achieved by tuning a parameter in the interaction potential.
The spectrum of the theory is determined by mapping the model first onto a
field theory with a Liouville interaction, then onto a linear dilaton conformal
field theory. In absence of matter fields a pure gauge theory with massless
ground state is found; otherwise it is possible to minimally couple up to 11
matter scalar fields: in this case the ground state is tachyonic and the matter
sector decouples, like the transverse oscillators in the critical bosonic
string.Comment: 7 pages, RevTeX4 file. v2: some comments and one reference adde
BRST Analysis of Physical States for 2D (Super) Gravity Coupled to (Super) Conformal Matter
We summarize some recent results on the BRST analysis of physical states of
2D gravity coupled to c<=1 conformal matter and the supersymmetric
generalization.Comment: 11 page
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