Xiao Tong had never expected that the paper she had written simply to graduate, with her brother's help optimizing its mathematical model, would make such enormous waves in the economics community once it came out...
The improved Bewley model-tentatively called the Lu-Bewley model-far outperformed the original in both computational efficiency and the accuracy of its results. It offered macroeconomists around the world working on numerical research a better alternative.
And that was not all.
People were astonished not only by the superiority of the Lu-Bewley model, but also by the fact that Professor Lu had actually branched out into economics!
And his very first move had been something this powerful!
In recent years, the Bewley model had remained at the forefront of macroeconomic research, and scholars advocating the mathematization of economics in particular regarded it as a classic!
Now that a more powerful model had been placed before them, how could they not rejoice?
Although Lu Zhou had not named the improved model, the academic community had taken the liberty of attaching his surname to it.
Thus, the Lu-Bewley model!
Although it was her graduation thesis and her brother had completely stolen the spotlight, Xiao Tong was not discouraged in the slightest. Instead, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
She knew her own abilities very well. There was no way she could have produced results of this caliber.
Precisely for that reason, when detailing each person's contribution at the end of the paper, she had explicitly stated that Lu Zhou had done most of the mathematical modeling, while she had only handled the theoretical portion and gathered the relevant materials.
Perhaps it was because she was listed as the second author, or perhaps it was because she was a nobody. In any case, she had received little unwanted attention