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[Submitted on 25 Jun 2019 (v1), last revised 9 Apr 2023 (this version, v5)]
Title:To Infinity and Beyond: A General Framework for Scaling Economic Theories
View PDFAbstract:Many economic theory models incorporate finiteness assumptions that, while introduced for simplicity, play a real role in the analysis. We provide a principled framework for scaling results from such models by removing these finiteness assumptions. Our sufficient conditions are on the theorem statement only, and not on its proof. This results in short proofs, and even allows to use the same argument to scale similar theorems that were proven using distinctly different tools. We demonstrate the versatility of our approach via examples from both revealed-preference theory and matching theory.
Submission history
From: Yannai A. Gonczarowski [view email][v1] Tue, 25 Jun 2019 05:59:42 UTC (30 KB)
[v2] Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:23:43 UTC (47 KB)
[v3] Mon, 2 Nov 2020 17:38:32 UTC (51 KB)
[v4] Sat, 21 Jan 2023 22:05:05 UTC (63 KB)
[v5] Sun, 9 Apr 2023 18:01:43 UTC (64 KB)
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