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Thomas Lumley
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1 and 4. That Wikipedia link has the example $$\hat\delta^M= \frac{x+0.5\sqrt{n}}{n+\sqrt{n}}$$ for estimating $\theta$ in $Bin(n,\theta)$. It's not finite-sample efficient because that's one of the models where the MLE, $x/n$, is finite-sample efficient.

  1. The local asymptotic minimax theorem says that an asymptotically efficient estimator is locally asymptotically minimax (over neighbourhoods of size $n^{-1/2}$) for any bowl-shaped loss function, so if there's a counterexample here I think it would have to be a bit pathological.
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