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jpe-referee-strategy

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Use when running a pre-submission pre-mortem on a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) manuscript to anticipate the price-theory, general-equilibrium, and identification objections a Chicago referee will raise. Builds the threat list and pre-empts it; it does not write the R&R response (see jpe-rebuttal).

When to use

• pre-submission pre-mortem
• anticipate price-theory objections
• anticipate general-equilibrium objections
• anticipate identification objections
• build threat list
• pre-empt objections
• harden paper before submitting
• frame contribution to survive demanding referee

When not to use

• write the R&R response

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