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Science & Applied Models
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What economic theory, mathematics, and statistics have to say about a concrete situation.
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| Haiti and the Next Major Earthquake: The Cost We Can Already Measure An economic and financial reading of seismic risk: potential losses, fiscal capacity, the concentration of credit in the Ouest, and the pre-disaster financing gap. The analysis puts the orders of magnitude on a single scale without presenting any scenario as a forecast. | Science & Models | |
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The Kakeya Needle: What a Fields Medal Can Tell the Haitian Economy
Hong Wang received the Fields Medal on 23 July for work that led, with Joshua Zahl, to the resolution of the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions. Beneath its puzzle-like appearance, the result carries an idea aimed squarely at small economies: you can compress the size of a system, never its structure. |
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