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[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Any symbol can be chosen for any variable including operations. It depends entirely on context.

I doubt economists use the convolution operator in this context or probably ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk#Usage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Huh I didn't realize that economics have their own version of math /s