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- The authors are Assistant Professor of Economics and Management Science at Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic CT‐06226, USA, and Associate Professor of Management Science at California State University, Fullerton CA‐92634, USA respectively. They would like to thank an anonymous referee for useful comments on an earlier version of this article.