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jpube-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) manuscript against the public-finance literature — locating the contribution relative to the tax, social-insurance, public-expenditure, and optimal-policy frontier without writing a standalone survey. Positions the paper; it does not frame the core contribution (use jpube-contribution-framing).
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# Literature Positioning (jpube-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The related-work section reads like a survey, not a staking of claim
- You cannot name the two or three papers you are directly building on or beating
- A reviewer might say "this has been done" or "the optimal-tax connection is missing"
- You are unsure which strand of public economics owns your question
## Positioning at JPubE
JPubE referees are public-finance specialists, and they judge the **contribution against the field's own frontier**, not against general economics. Position the paper inside the relevant strand and against the canonical references that define it:
- **Taxable-income / elasticity strand** — Feldstein-style ETI, the Saez–Slemrod–Giertz synthesis, bunching-based elasticity estimates. Say which estimate yours updates and why.