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Piotroski's F-Score in the Chinese A-Share market
This study examines whether Piotroski's (2000) F-Score strategy can successfully be applied to the Chinese A-Share market. The empirical evidence shows that in the Chinese A-Share market, the high F-Score portfolio significantly outperforms the low F-Score portfolio. Especially within a low BM firm sample, buying high F-Score firms and shorting low F-Score firms consistently, on average, generate 1.28% market adjusted profit per month. The results are robust for size partition. However, the benefits of Piotroski's F-Score strategy are concentrated in low liquidity and analyst following sample. Within the high BM firm sample, Piotroski's F-Score strategy cannot generate any significant return. The excess return of a low BM sample persists across time, as well as after controlling for size, book-to-market ratio, and market beta. In addition, if we measure risk in terms of beta and volatility, high F-Score firms are less risky than low F-Score firms. To conclude, the empirical evidence presented in this study suggests investors can use Piotroski's F-Score to identify mispriced stocks and earn abnormal returns in the Chinese A-share market, especially within a low BM firm sample
Intermediate-pressure phases of cerium studied by an LDA + Gutzwiller method
The thermodynamic stable phase of cerium metal in the intermediate pressure
regime (5.0--13.0 GPa) is studied in detail by the newly developed
local-density approximation (LDA)+ Gutzwiller method, which can include the
strong correlation effect among the 4\textit{f} electrons in cerium metal
properly. Our numerical results show that the phase, which has the
distorted body-centered-tetragonal structure, is the thermodynamic stable phase
in the intermediate pressure regime and all the other phases including the
phase (-U structure), phase (fcc structure), and bct
phases are either metastable or unstable. Our results are quite consistent with
the most recent experimental data.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figure
How bad metals turn good: spectroscopic signatures of resilient quasiparticles
We investigate transport in strongly correlated metals. Within dynamical
mean-field theory, we calculate the resistivity, thermopower, optical
conductivity and thermodynamic properties of a hole-doped Mott insulator. Two
well-separated temperature scales are identified: T_FL below which Landau Fermi
liquid behavior applies, and T_MIR above which the resistivity exceeds the
Mott-Ioffe-Regel value and `bad-metal' behavior is found. We show that
quasiparticle excitations remain well-defined above T_FL and dominate transport
throughout the intermediate regime T_FL < T_MIR. The lifetime of these
`resilient quasiparticles' is longer for electron-like excitations, and this
pronounced particle-hole asymmetry has important consequences for the
thermopower. The crossover into the bad-metal regime corresponds to the
disappearance of these excitations, and has clear signatures in optical
spectroscopy.Comment: 5 pages + 4 supplementary pages; published versio
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