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Use when the contribution of an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript relative to the international-macro frontier and the sibling journals is unclear or undersold. Stakes the claim against JIE/JIMF/JMCB and the IMF research stream; it does not select the topic (imfer-topic-selection) or design identification (imfer-identification).

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# Literature Positioning (imfer-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- A referee or coauthor says "I am not sure what is new here relative to [JIE / JIMF paper]"
- The paper cites broadly but never states the **one-sentence delta** over the closest prior work
- You cannot tell whether the contribution is empirical (new fact), methodological, or policy-design
- The framing reads like a JIE or JIMF paper and you must pull it toward IMFER's policy-relevant frontier
- You need to place the paper in the **IMF research stream** (WEO/GFSR themes, ARC topics, prior IMFER issues) without name-dropping
- A reviewer suspects the result restates a known global-financial-cycle / sudden-stop finding under a new label

## How IMFER weighs a contribution

IMFER referees ask three things at once: *Is the finding new at the frontier? Is the identification credible? Does it change how a policymaker should think about an international-macro problem?* A paper that is new but policy-mute, or policy-relevant but already known, stalls. Position the contribution on the axis where it is strongest, and be explicit about the **closest two or three papers** — including the sibling-journal ones — so the referee never has to guess what you are adding.
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