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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Associating particular kinds of disaster with classes of event obviates the need to restate basic information every time we deal with such phenomena. Natural Disasters. Alexander, D.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

They have a credit box 8 that is akin to what existed around 2000 - 2002, i.e., before the GSEs loosened it up as mortgage bubble distortions showed up. Prior to 2013, when the first CRT transactions were done, this information was kept confidential. [11] percent per year, less than half the rate of house price inflation. [5]

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