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* The figures in Sections VII and IX were created using Dynamo [184] and VirtualLabs [92], respectively. I am grateful to Caltech for its hospitality as I completed this article, and I gratefully acknowledge financial support under NSF Grant SES-0617753.

and specially three anonymous referees for their helpful comments. We also thank the Institut d'économie industrielle de l'Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse for its hospitality during the Fall 1999.