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1 The authors thank R. J. Aumann, C. d’Aspremont, D. Granot, S. Hart, and A. Perea for various comments and suggestions that helped improve this paper. 2 E-mail: [email protected]. This author gratefully acknowledges partial support from Spanish Ministry of Education DGICYT Grant PB-98-0870 and Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca Grant SGR98-62. 3 E-mail: [email protected]. This aut...

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