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Reply: “The Dynamics of Corporate Debt Management, Decision Rules and Some Empirical Evidence”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

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In his comment [4], Pashmi Thakkar raises two questions concerning our study [1] in three points. Points 1 and 3 have to do with discrediting the existence or proper measurement of our dependent variable, while point 2 argues for a technically biased regression structure resulting in biased estimates.

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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1974

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