Natural disaster insurance and the equity-efficiency trade-off

Journal of Risk and Insurance

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-38

  Picard, Pierre ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

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EID: 40449103958     PISSN: 00224367     EISSN: 15396975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2007.00246.x     Document Type: Article

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