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Use to stake a Quantitative Economics (QE) manuscript's contribution against the frontier — what quantitative gap it closes relative to prior empirical, structural, and methodological work, and against its Econometric Society siblings. Positions the paper; it does not write a standalone literature survey.

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# Literature Positioning (qe-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The contribution relative to existing quantitative work is fuzzy or oversold
- You cannot name the two or three papers you are building on and the one you are beating
- A referee will ask "what is new here beyond [prior structural/empirical paper]?"
- You are unsure whether the positioning reads as QE rather than Econometrica or a field journal

## The QE positioning logic

QE referees — refereeing for the **Econometric Society's empirically/quantitatively oriented** journal — judge a paper on whether it **moves a quantitative question forward**, not on a literature tour. Positioning must answer three questions crisply:

1. **What did we not know quantitatively before this paper?** A parameter that was assumed rather than estimated; a counterfactual no prior design could run; a fact no prior data could measure; a method whose application changes a known answer.
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