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ier-robustness

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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.

When to use

• Organizing robustness by threat to load-bearing assumption
• Assessing sensitivity to functional form or calibrated parameters
• Evaluating inference fragility such as few clusters or serial correlation
• Checking structural counterfactuals against re-anchored parameters
• Distinguishing main text robustness checks from appendix checks
• Reporting robustness as ranges or functions of uncertain parameters
• Assessing numerical fragility in structural models
• Identifying which robustness checks IER referees demand

When not to use

• Running the regressions
• Performing mechanical appendix re-runs without threat mapping

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