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ectheory-literature-positioning
Use to stake an Econometric Theory (ET) contribution against the existing theory frontier — which assumptions you weaken, which limit result you generalize, what was previously unproven — using APA author-date citations, not a standalone literature survey.
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# Literature Positioning (ectheory-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The introduction lists prior papers without saying precisely what is *new* in your theorem
- A referee might ask "isn't this a special case of X?" and you have no crisp answer
- You need to show your regularity conditions are weaker (or your environment broader) than prior work
- Setting up the citation apparatus in ET's **APA author-date** style
## How ET positioning differs
ET is a theory journal: positioning is **theorem-to-theorem**, not "gap in the empirical
literature." The reader is an econometric theorist who will immediately map your result onto the
known limit theory. Your job is to locate your contribution on that lattice precisely: