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John C. G. Boot, George M. Frankfurter, The Dynamics of Corporate Debt Management, Decision Rules, and Some Empirical Evidence, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Sep., 1972), pp. 1957-1965
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