International Economic Review Skills

Use when an International Economic Review (IER) decision letter or referee report needs a response strategy and a revision plan. Triages comments and structures the response letter to a rigor-leaning, theory-tilted review; it does not invent new results.

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

Use when an International Economic Review (IER) result may be sensitive to specification, sample, functional form, calibration, or inference choices. Organizes robustness by threat to the load-bearing assumption; it does not run the regressions.

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript via the Editorial Express portal — the submission fee gate, the ≤50-page limit, format and style, proprietary-data notification, and the AER data policy. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Use when the model is the contribution for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript and its assumptions, results, or comparative statics are not yet tight. Stress-tests load-bearing assumptions, generality, and the proof to IER's theory/structural bar; it does not write the proofs.

Use when an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript's prose, intro, or abstract does not land for a rigor-leaning, broad economics audience. Sharpens the model-to-evidence narrative and the intro; it is a late-stage polish, not a content fix.

Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript — structural parameter identification, empirical causal identification, or for a theory result, what makes it tightly pinned. Stress-tests the data-to-object mapping to IER's rigor bar; it does not run the estimation.

Use when exhibits in an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript are dense, do not carry the argument, or do not present structural/theory results well. Makes each exhibit answer one question; it does not generate the data.

Use when deciding whether a question is broad and rigorous enough for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript, and which branch (theory / structural-macro / econometric method / applied micro) frames it. Tests fit and scope; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Use when anticipating referee objections before submitting an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript, or when reading the room of an IER review. Maps the likely objections by archetype and pre-empts them; it does not draft the response letter (see ier-rebuttal).

Use when assembling the data/code deposit and proof appendix for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript under its AER-style data availability policy. Covers the deposit, README, data availability statement, and self-contained proofs; it does not write the analysis code.

Use when staking an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript's contribution against the frontier and against sibling journals (Econometrica/QE, the top-5, field journals). Sharpens the gap and the delta; it does not invent citations.