Choose an exposure base for a given line of business or use case and defend the choice against the criteria that make an exposure base good.

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A good exposure base clears three tests: proportional to expected loss, practical (objective, cheap, verifiable, hard to manipulate), and consistent with historical precedent. As a study heuristic you can treat practicality as the gate and proportionality as the tie-breaker, but the source ranks none of the three, and precedent alone...

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