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An Insurance Approach for Preventing Financial Crisis

June 2013

In book: Financial Crisis Containment and Government Guarantees
Publisher: Edward Elgar

Authors:

Klaus Heine

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Michael Faure

Erasmus University Rotterdam

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