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* The names of authors are listed alphabetically indicating equal contribution. Major parts of this paper were written during the sabbatical leave of the second author to the University of Arizona. He is grateful to the Eller College of Management for providing access to its excellent facilities and to the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a generous travel grant.