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jie-contribution-framing

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Use to frame the contribution of a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript so it clears the journal's gate that work be original in its motivation or modelling structure — articulating what is new for international trade or international macro/finance, for an audience split between the two halves of the field. Frames the "what's new"; it does not produce the results.

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# Contribution Framing (jie-contribution-framing)

## When to trigger

- The results exist but the "so what / what's new" is not crisp
- A referee might say "incremental" or "not original enough"
- You need to state the contribution in JIE's own terms before writing the intro

## JIE's originality gate

JIE accepts both empirical and theoretical work, but it must be **original in its motivation or modelling structure**. This is the exact bar to frame against — not "important" or "policy-relevant" in the abstract, but **new in motivation or new in modelling**. Choose the axis your paper actually delivers on:

- **Motivation originality**: a new international-economics question, a new fact, or new data the field did not have — e.g., a novel tariff/NTM dataset, firm-level customs records, a new measure of capital flows, exchange-rate pass-through, or sovereign-spread dynamics. Frame it as "the field believed/assumed X; with [new data/fact] we show Y."
- **Modelling originality**: a non-trivial new mechanism or structure — e.g., a new ingredient in an Eaton–Kortum/Melitz trade model, a new channel in a small-open-economy DSGE, or a new sovereign-default mechanism. Frame it as "existing models cannot generate Z; our structure does, and it matters quantitatively because [counterfactual]."
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