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Well, the paper itself (referenced in the wikipedia page Wei referred to) is obviously the definitive source. The abstract reads:
All the other summaries I've ever seen also describe the result in similarly narrow terms, e.g.:
the wikipedia entry on Joe Stiglitz, which states that
the paper by Dixit that comes up as the first google hit for "Greenwald Stiglitz", which states that:
I expect that the statement Wei linked to is just a typo where someone accidentally substituted "perfect competition" for "perfect information".
ETA: I actually would have edited the wiki entry myself; but I didn't want to create the impression I'd done so just to back up my claims.