Natural Disaster Insurance and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off
โ Scribed by Pierre Picard
- Book ID
- 109158519
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4367
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