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Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Chunlin Liu, Lawrence Mielnicki, Impact of State Exemption Laws on Small Business Bankruptcy Decision, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Jan., 2005), pp. 620-635
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