Acknowledgments This paper is supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (No. 10CJY007) and the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (2010XG072). We greatly appreciate the extensive assistance from Katherine Ye, Xiaoqin Qi, and Yichen Deng.
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