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ier-rebuttal

Use when an International Economic Review (IER) decision letter or referee report needs a response strategy and a revision plan. Triages comments and structures the response letter to a rigor-leaning, theory-tilted review; it does not invent new results.

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# Rebuttal Strategy (ier-rebuttal)

## When to trigger

- An IER R&R (or major/minor revision) letter arrived and you need a response plan
- A reject-and-resubmit or a split decision (referees disagree) needs a strategy
- A referee challenges the load-bearing assumption, the identification, or a proof and you must decide what to concede vs. defend
- You need to convert a stack of referee comments into an ordered, owned revision plan

## Reading an IER decision letter

IER reviews are rigor-gated and theory-leaning, so the comments that *must* be resolved are usually about **correctness and generality**, not framing. Triage every comment into one of four buckets before writing a word of response:

| Bucket | What it is | Response posture |
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