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ier-referee-strategy

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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).

When to use

• anticipating referee objections before submitting an IER manuscript
• reading the room of an IER review
• finding the objection that would sink the paper before a referee does
• deciding what to put in the paper vs. hold in reserve for the response
• identifying undefended assumptions or fragile numbers
• calibrating expectations for IER's review
• pre-empting objections by archetype
• writing the cover letter to the desk editor's filing decision

When not to use

• drafting the response letter

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