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Low probability, high impact: Policy making and extreme events

✍ Scribed by Matthieu Bussière; Marcel Fratzscher

Book ID
113748223
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
419 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0161-8938

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