White Papers
Demand Surge Perspective on the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence:
A 10-year review
Canterbury―the largest city in New Zealand's South Island―made headlines around the world when multiple earthquakes struck and devastated the city in 2010-2011. This white paper investigates whether demand surge, a term often used interchangeably with loss inflation, followed the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence and the underlying economic data that helps explain if the effect is coming from the resident or commercial market or both.
