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imfer-referee-strategy

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Use when anticipating the objections a dual academic/policy IMF Economic Review (IMFER) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision. Plans the defense; it does not draft the response letter (imfer-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (imfer-submission).

When to use

• stress-test a paper against referees before submission
• decide which robustness checks to run before submitting
• map referee concerns to concrete responses after R&R
• understand how IMFER's double-blind, dual-audience review shapes strategy
• pre-empt predictable objections in the paper
• war-game the design and policy claim
• triage which checks to run before vs. after submission
• make reproducibility visible to defuse restricted-data concerns

When not to use

• draft the response letter (imfer-rebuttal)
• run the submission preflight (imfer-submission)

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