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Gary S. Shea, Pitfalls in Smoothing Interest Rate Term Structure Data: Equilibrium Models and Spline Approximations, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 253-269
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