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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).

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# Referee Strategy (imfer-referee-strategy)

## When to trigger

- The paper is near submission and you want to stress-test it against the referees it will draw
- You must decide which robustness/identification checks to run *before* submitting vs. hold in reserve
- An R&R arrived and you must map referee concerns to concrete responses
- You want to understand how IMFER's double-blind, dual-audience review shapes strategy

## How IMFER review works (plan around it)

IMFER uses **double-blind review** through Editorial Manager (anonymize the main file and self-citations) (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). The distinctive feature is the **referee pool**: typically one frontier international-macro researcher *and* readers attuned to **policy relevance and IMF-program realism**. The modal report attacks (1) the **credibility of the cross-country / policy-surprise design**, then (2) **country composition and external validity**, then (3) **whether the policy implication is actually warranted**. A clean estimate with an over-reached or under-developed policy claim is a common rejection. Plan to **pre-empt the predictable objections in the paper** and reserve the letter for genuinely new asks.

| Referee objection (by type) | Pre-emption to build in now |
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