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Index Hedge Performance: Insurer Market Penetration and Basis Risk

In: The Financing of Catastrophe Risk

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  • John Major, 1999. "Index Hedge Performance: Insurer Market Penetration and Basis Risk," NBER Chapters, in: The Financing of Catastrophe Risk, pages 391-432, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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