AN OPTIMIZED PROCEDURE TO ESTIMATE THE ECONOMIC SEISMIC LOSSES OF EXISTING REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS DUE TO SEISMIC DAMAGE

An Optimized Procedure to Estimate the Economic Seismic Losses of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings due to Seismic Damage

The latest Italian seismic events have highlighted a high discrepancy between the potential destructiveness of an earthquake and the consequent economic losses due to damage to buildings.The main reason for this mismatch is the high number of vulnerable residential buildings or the low-to-medium vulnerability of buildings that are reaching the ends

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DEVELOPMENT OF DERIVATIVE MARKET IN 2000-2012

At the end of XIX century futures exchange emerged, in the early 70-ies XX century - option exchange of financial derivatives.These exchanges gave a huge boost to the development of market of the operations with derivative financial instruments.In fact, in the 1970-1980-ies a new market segment was actually formed - the stock and financial derivati

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