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aejmac-referee-strategy

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Use when anticipating the objections referees and coeditors will raise on an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript, and calibrating desk-reject and revision odds, before submission. Pre-empts pushback and plans the review; it does not draft the post-decision response letter (use aejmac-rebuttal).

When to use

• anticipating referee objections
• calibrating desk-reject odds
• calibrating revision odds
• planning the review
• pre-empting pushback
• gauging desk-reject risk
• deciding robustness checks to run before submission
• pre-empting predictable macro objections

When not to use

• drafting the post-decision response letter

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