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  1. Department of Economics, Stanford University, Serra Street at Galvez, 94305-6072, Stanford, CA, USA

    Mordecai Kurz

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This work was supported by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milano, Italy. The author thanks Andrea Beltratti, Carsten Nielsen, Martin Schneider and Ho-Mou Wu for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. He thanks Carsten Nielsen for extensive editorial assistance in the preparation of this volume.

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Kurz, M. Rational beliefs and endogenous uncertainty. Econ Theory 8, 383–397 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213502

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