1 We thank Francis Bloch, an associate editor and an anonymous referee for their comments on this paper. Some parts of this paper were written during the first author’s visits to the Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CORE, Belgium. He thanks these institutions for their hospitality and financial support. The second author thanks the...

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