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journal-of-urban-economics
Use when targeting Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) or deciding whether an urban-, regional-, or spatial-economics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Journal of Urban Economics (journal-of-urban-economics)
## Journal positioning
JUE is the field flagship for urban, regional, and spatial economics, publishing the most consequential work on agglomeration, housing, local labor markets, transportation, and place-based policy. It rewards papers that answer a substantive spatial-economics question with credible identification or a serious spatial-equilibrium model. The readership is urban and regional economists, so a paper must combine a spatial mechanism with state-of-the-art empirical or structural execution.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Elsevier site and the editorial submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names JUE as the target venue, or wants the urban/regional-economics field flagship.
- An urban or spatial paper has credible identification or a spatial-equilibrium model but is narrower than a top-5 result.
- A regional or local-policy paper needs re-framing so the contribution reads as spatial economics — agglomeration, sorting, spatial equilibrium — rather than local description.
- The author needs JUE's desk-reject risks and a credible urban/regional alternative list.