Efficiency and Observability with Long-Run and Short-Run Players
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Fudenberg, Drew and David K. Levine. 1994. Efficiency and
observability with long-run and short-run players. Journal of
Economic Theory 62, no. 1: 103-135.
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doi:10.1006/jeth.1994.1006
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