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• Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Work on this article was supported by a grant from the University of Missouri under their Faculty Summer Research Fellowship Program. The author is indebted to Arthur Hazlewood and Michael Lipton for many valuable suggestions and comments. The remaining shortcomings are, of course, the author's own responsibility.
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