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jfe-referee-strategy

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Use when anticipating and pre-empting the objections a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) referee will raise — endogeneity, fragility, multiple testing, alternative explanations. Builds a defense plan before or during review; it does not draft the post-R&R response letter (jfe-rebuttal).

When to use

• Anticipating referee objections before submission
• Planning which battles to fight after a first round
• Addressing suspected weaknesses like contested instruments
• Refereeing your own paper to answer hard questions
• Triaging referee comments into substantive, clarification, or disagreement
• Identifying the editor's emphasis in reports
• Deciding where new tests go in main text or Internet Appendix

When not to use

• Drafting the post-R&R response letter

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