Buying Insurance for Disaster-Type Risks: Experimental Evidence

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 271-289

  Ganderton, Philip T ^a   Brookshire, David S ^a   McKee, Michael ^a   Stewart, Steve ^a   Thurston, Hale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Insurance; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043190329     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007871514658     Document Type: Article

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