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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Rashmi B. Thakkar
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In a previous issue of this journal Boot and Frankfurter (hereafter B-F) published the results of their study on the optimal mix of short-and-long-term debt. While interesting, their results appear to be open to question on the following grounds:

1. Use of wrong data: The short-term borrowing data used by B-F in their regression analysis include the following items which do not generally and, rightly so, belong to short-term debt:

(a) Reserve for deferred or future income taxes,

(b) Restricted surplus for deferred taxes,

(c) Insurance reserves,

(d) Surplus reserves,

(e) Unamortised debt premium, and

(f) Contributions for constructions.

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Communications
Information
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , December 1974 , pp. 1065 - 1066
Copyright
Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1974

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References

1 John C. G. Boot and George M. Frankfurter, “The Dynamics of Corporate Debt Management, Decision Rules, and Some Empirical Evidence” (September 1972), pp. 1957–1965.

2 Frankfurter, George M., “The Dynamics of Corporate Debt Management” (Ph.D. Thesis, State University of Mew York at Buffalo, 1970)Google Scholar.

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