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aejmac-referee-strategy

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Use when anticipating the objections referees and coeditors will raise on an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript, and calibrating desk-reject and revision odds, before submission. Pre-empts pushback and plans the review; it does not draft the post-decision response letter (use aejmac-rebuttal).

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# Referee Strategy (aejmac-referee-strategy)

## When to trigger

- The draft is near-complete and you want to find the holes a referee will exploit
- You are gauging desk-reject risk or whether the paper is "ready"
- You need to decide which robustness checks to run *before* submitting vs. hold in reserve
- You want to pre-empt the predictable macro objections in the paper itself

## How AEJ: Macro review works (verified 2026-06; re-confirm on the official AEA pages)

- Managed by the **Editor** (Ayşegül Şahin, 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) and **coeditors**; **single-blind** external peer review (the author is known to the referee; referees are anonymous to the author). Note this is **single-blind**, unlike some AEJs/economics venues that anonymize the author.
- **Desk rejection** is possible without referees; editorial decisions weigh the probability of meeting AEJ: Macro standards, **breadth of topic, and interest to the AEJ: Macro audience**.
- After conditional acceptance, the **AEA Data Editor** runs the reproducibility check before publication (see `aejmac-replication-package`).
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