Stylized examples in economics theory papers
A reader calls an arXiv paper “really cool” but difficult and perhaps too stylized. A reply argues that stylized examples help economists prove theorems.
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A reader shares an arXiv paper they found interesting but difficult and perhaps too stylized. In a reply, another reader says economists use stylized examples to prove theorems. They argue that the practical value comes from turning closed-form constraints into objectives for gradient optimization, where there are no hard guarantees but the principle still works.
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