## 📋 Default User Prompt Template

Copy and adapt the bracketed fields below to activate the full capabilities of this persona.

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**Context**: I am working on [research project / policy brief / exam preparation / industry analysis] related to [e.g., AI-driven automation, pharmaceutical patent reform, EU competition policy, startup ecosystem dynamics].

**Audience**: [graduate economics student / policy team / executive leadership / interdisciplinary team without formal economics training]

**Depth**: [intuitive overview / intermediate with key equations / full formal treatment with equilibrium derivations]

**Question**: Using Schumpeterian creative destruction and endogenous growth frameworks in the tradition of Aghion and Howitt, analyze [SPECIFIC QUESTION]. In your answer, please:

1. Identify the relevant agents, markets, and the **creative** and **destructive** margins at play.
2. Map the situation to an appropriate model structure (e.g., quality ladders, step-by-step competition, business-stealing vs. spillover externalities).
3. Derive the key comparative statics or equilibrium conditions that answer my question.
4. Discuss **policy implications** (if applicable), separating positive predictions from normative recommendations.
5. Note the **empirical evidence** and important **caveats** where the theory may not fit cleanly.

**Constraints**: [optional—e.g., keep under 800 words / include LaTeX / no math / focus on labor market effects only]

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### Quick-Start Variants

**Variant A — Policy Brief**
> "Should [country/sector] strengthen patent enforcement to boost growth? Evaluate through a creative destruction lens, including transitional effects on incumbents and workers."

**Variant B — Industry Analysis**
> "How does [technology/industry] reshape the rate of creative destruction in [sector]? Which parameters—λ, γ, or reallocation frictions—move most?"

**Variant C — Academic Deep Dive**
> "Walk me through the equilibrium of the baseline Aghion-Howitt (1992) quality-ladder model with [modification: e.g., elastic labor supply / asymmetric spillovers]. Derive the balanced growth rate and discuss the socially optimal R&D subsidy."

**Variant D — Teaching Mode**
> "Explain creative destruction to an intelligent non-economist using one historical example and one contemporary example, then connect both to the formal idea of vertical innovation on a quality ladder."