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Sieving rational points on varieties
A sieve for rational points on suitable varieties is developed, together with
applications to counting rational points in thin sets, the number of varieties
in a family which are everywhere locally soluble, and to the notion of friable
rational points with respect to divisors. In the special case of quadrics,
sharper estimates are obtained by developing a version of the Selberg sieve for
rational points.Comment: 30 pages; minor edits (final version
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The Role of Admission Documents on the Pricing of UK Fixed Priced IPOs
Using text sentiment analysis, we investigate the impact of the length of prospectuses on IPO pricing for a sample of UK Fixed Priced IPOs between 2004 and 2012 and show more information in the prospectus improves price accuracy as longer admission documents exhibit higher offer price and less underpricing. We explain the effect on the offer price as the consequence of the “pilot fishing” stage which seems to characterize a lot of UK IPOs
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations
We review the theory and evidence on IPO activity: why firms go public, why they reward first-day investors with considerable underpricing, and how IPOs perform in the long run. Our perspective on the literature is three-fold: First, we believe that many IPO phenomena are not stationary. Second, we believe research into share allocation issues is the most promising area of research in IPOs at the moment. Third, we argue that asymmetric information is not the primary driver of many IPO phenomena. Instead, we believe future progress in the literature will come from non-rational and agency conflict explanations. We describe some promising such alternatives.
Behavioral Corporate Finance: A Survey
Research in behavioral corporate finance takes two distinct approaches. The first emphasizes that investors are less than fully rational. It views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational responses to securities market mispricing. The second approach emphasizes that managers are less than fully rational. It studies the effect of nonstandard preferences and judgmental biases on managerial decisions. This survey reviews the theory, empirical challenges, and current evidence pertaining to each approach. Overall, the behavioral approaches help to explain a number of important financing and investment patterns. The survey closes with a list of open questions.
Manin's Conjecture for a Singular Sextic del Pezzo Surface
We prove Manin's conjecture for a del Pezzo surface of degree six which has
one singularity of type . Moreover, we achieve a meromorphic
continuation and explicit expression of the associated height zeta function.Comment: 23 pages, 1 figur
Volatility Prediction using Financial Disclosures Sentiments with Word Embedding-based IR Models
Volatility prediction--an essential concept in financial markets--has
recently been addressed using sentiment analysis methods. We investigate the
sentiment of annual disclosures of companies in stock markets to forecast
volatility. We specifically explore the use of recent Information Retrieval
(IR) term weighting models that are effectively extended by related terms using
word embeddings. In parallel to textual information, factual market data have
been widely used as the mainstream approach to forecast market risk. We
therefore study different fusion methods to combine text and market data
resources. Our word embedding-based approach significantly outperforms
state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we investigate the characteristics of
the reports of the companies in different financial sectors
Rational points of bounded height on general conic bundle surfaces
A conjecture of Manin predicts the asymptotic distribution of rational points
of bounded height on Fano varieties. In this paper we use conic bundles to
obtain correct lower bounds or a wide class of surfaces over number fields for
which the conjecture is still far from being proved. For example, we obtain the
conjectured lower bound of Manin's conjecture for any del Pezzo surface whose
Picard rank is sufficiently large, or for arbitrary del Pezzo surfaces after
possibly an extension of the ground field of small degree.Comment: 35 pages; final versio
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