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Article

Publication Date

1985

Abstract

A survey of major home mortgage lenders and real -property appraisers in California and the Puget Sound region shows a general inattention to earthquake hazards in appraisal and lending policy. This inattention is demonstrated not only in responses to survey questions, but also in a lack of differentiation in lending decisions between properties within and outside surface-fault rupture zones. As posited by organizational theory however, important variants exist in this overall policy, almost always resulting from the efforts of individuals within large lending organizations

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Final manuscript version of an article published in:

Palm, Risa, 1985. “Home Mortgage Lenders and Earthquake Hazards,” Papers of the Regional Science Association, Vol. 57, pp. 139-153. Available online at DOI: 10.1007/BF01935286.

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