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jet-literature-positioning

Use when staking a Journal of Economic Theory (JET) contribution against the theory frontier — show precisely which assumption is weakened, which result is generalized, or which new phenomenon is characterized relative to the closest existing theorems. Positions the result; it is not a standalone survey.

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# Literature Positioning (jet-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- Writing the related-work paragraph(s) for a JET theory paper
- A referee or editor may ask "how is this different from [closest existing theorem]?"
- You need to defend originality at the desk screen

## How JET wants the literature handled

JET spans general theory, so referees are expert in the **nearest existing results**, not a broad
empirical literature. Positioning is **theorem-relative**, not topic-relative. For each closest paper,
state the **delta in one of these precise forms**:
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