Benefiting From Disaster? Public and Private Responses to the Wenchuan Earthquake
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.038
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- Park, Albert & Wang, Sangui, 2016. "Benefiting from Disaster?: Public and Private Responses to the Wenchuan Earthquake," CEPR Discussion Papers 11684, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Albert Park & Sangui Wang, 2016. "Benefiting from Disaster?: Public and Private Responses to the Wenchuan Earthquake," HKUST IEMS Working Paper Series 2016-36, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies, revised Jun 2016.
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