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aeri-literature-positioning

Use when positioning the contribution of an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript against the closest published work in one or two tight paragraphs. Stakes the gap concisely; it does not write the full literature review (there is no room for one).

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# Literature Positioning — Compressed (aeri-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The contribution relative to the nearest paper is fuzzy or oversold
- A draft contains a multi-page literature review that the format cannot afford
- A referee might say "this is already known" or "this is a known method applied"
- You need to show the single insight is **new** without spending the word budget

## The short-format positioning problem

AER: Insights gives you **no room for a survey**. Positioning must be done in **one or two paragraphs** that do exactly one job: pin the **single closest prior result** and state precisely what your one insight adds, corrects, or overturns. Because the whole paper is one idea, the literature task is narrow — locate that idea on the frontier, not map the whole field. The word budget is shared with everything else (≤7,000 words minus exhibits), so every citation must earn its place.

## How to position in two paragraphs