IMF Economic Review Skills

Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) R&R or decision letter arrived and you need a response-letter strategy for a dual academic/policy referee panel. Plans and drafts the response; it returns to imfer-submission for the resubmission preflight and does not re-run the original identification (imfer-identification).

Use when deciding which imfer-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript's headline cross-country estimate must be shown to survive specification, sample, country-composition, and inference choices before submission or in an R&R. Builds the robustness suite a dual academic/policy referee expects; it does not establish identification (imfer-identification) or format exhibits (imfer-tables-figures).

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript via Editorial Manager — double-blind anonymization, italicized abstract with JEL codes, Chicago style, separate author-bio file, and the data-availability statement. Final checks; it does not draft content (imfer-writing-style) or plan the rebuttal (imfer-rebuttal).

Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript needs an open-economy model to discipline, interpret, or generate counterfactuals for its evidence — whether a full international-finance model leads the paper or a light framework supports an empirical estimate. Right-sizes the theory to IMFER's policy-relevant bar; it does not design identification (imfer-identification) or run robustness (imfer-robustness).

Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript's prose must land for its dual academic/policy audience — a tight intro, an italicized abstract with JEL codes, Chicago style, and a clear policy "so what." Sharpens the writing; it does not build the exhibits (imfer-tables-figures) or run the submission preflight (imfer-submission).

Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript — cross-country panel, high-frequency policy-surprise, crisis event study, narrative, or open-economy structural identification. Stress-tests the data-to-object mapping to IMFER's policy-relevant bar; it does not build the model (imfer-theory-model) or run the robustness suite (imfer-robustness).

Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript's exhibits must communicate an international-macro result to a dual academic/policy audience — transparent country coverage, readable cross-country panels, no significance asterisks. Builds the exhibits; it does not run the robustness behind them (imfer-robustness) or write the prose (imfer-writing-style).

Use when deciding whether a question is right for an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript — international macro-finance with genuine policy relevance and an IMF-program or global-institution audience. Tests fit and scope; it does not run the identification (imfer-identification) or stake the contribution (imfer-literature-positioning).

Use when anticipating the objections a dual academic/policy IMF Economic Review (IMFER) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision. Plans the defense; it does not draft the response letter (imfer-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (imfer-submission).

Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript's data and code must be packaged for reproducibility — including restricted IMF/central-bank data paths, cross-country source lineage, and a runnable environment. Builds the package; it does not produce the exhibits (imfer-tables-figures) or run the submission preflight (imfer-submission).

Use when the contribution of an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript relative to the international-macro frontier and the sibling journals is unclear or undersold. Stakes the claim against JIE/JIMF/JMCB and the IMF research stream; it does not select the topic (imfer-topic-selection) or design identification (imfer-identification).