Acknowledgement
The authors are grateful to Professor Eric Maskin, Editor of Economics Letters, for his incisive comments on an earlier version of this paper.
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Khandakar Qudrat-I Elahi
Khandakar Qudrat-I Elahi is a faculty member in the Department of Economics and Social Science at BRAC University.
M. Lutfor Rahman
Professor (retired) Lutfor Rahman is in the Department of Agricultural Finance at the Bangladesh Agricultural University at Mymensingh.