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rof-identification-strategy
Use when the credibility core of a Review of Finance (RoF) manuscript is the bottleneck — causal identification for empirical finance (DID, IV, RDD, event study, natural experiments) OR assumptions, results, and proof exposition for theoretical finance. Stress-tests the design or model to the top-three-finance-journal standard.
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# Identification & Theory Strategy (rof-identification-strategy)
## When to trigger
- The empirical core is panel regressions with controls and an undefended causal claim
- A DID uses two-way fixed effects on staggered timing without modern estimators
- An IV's first stage is weak or its exclusion restriction is unargued
- The paper is **theoretical** and the assumptions, generality, or proof exposition are the weak link
## The RoF credibility bar
RoF referees apply **top-three-finance-journal standards** to the inferential or logical spine. Because RoF publishes **both empirical and theoretical** finance, "identification" means two different things — pick the branch matching your paper.
### Branch E1 — Empirical: causal design for finance