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I am deeply indebted to my advisors Jon Barwise, Kenneth Arrow, and Ennio Stacchetti for their help with my dissertation and this paper which is based on a chapter of the dissertation. I would also like to thank R. Narasimhan, Rohit Parikh and Stephen Schiffer for many stimulating conversations. My dissertation was done in the Engineering-Economic Systems Department and at CSLI (Stanford University), and the paper at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, and I am indebted to all three institutions for their support.

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Parikh, P. Communication and strategic inference. Linguist Philos 14, 473–514 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00632595

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