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

Controversy surrounds the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Rule 415 that went into effect in March 1982 and remained an experiment until it was permanenty adopted for large firms in November 1983. Rule 415allows a company to register all the securities it plans to issue over the next two years and then to sell someor all of the securities whenever it chooses. This procedure is known as a shelf registration. The purposes of Rule 415 are to simplify the registration of new corporate securities and to allow more flexibility in the way issues are underwritten.

Stephen M. Schaefer, Eduardo S. Schwartz, A Two-Factor Model of the Term Structure: An Approximate Analytical Solution, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 413-424

Gershon N. Mandelker, S. Ghon Rhee, The Impact of the Degrees of Operating and Financial Leverage on Systematic Risk of Common Stock, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 45-57