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jie-topic-selection
Use when checking whether a paper fits the Journal of International Economics (JIE) scope and clears its originality gate — trade patterns and commercial policy, exchange rates, open-economy macro, international finance, sovereign debt, factor mobility, spatial economics, and whether the motivation or modelling structure is original. Tests fit; it does not pick your topic for you.
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# Topic Selection (jie-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You are deciding whether a paper belongs at JIE vs a general-interest or domestic-field journal
- The international-economics angle is unclear or bolted-on
- You are unsure your motivation or model is original enough to clear JIE's gate
## JIE's scope
JIE publishes work across the whole of international economics — **both international trade and international macroeconomics/finance**. In-scope topics, per the journal's stated scope, include: trade patterns and commercial policy; international institutions; exchange rates; open-economy macroeconomics; country/regional growth and development; international finance; international pricing; sovereign debt; international factor mobility; spatial economics; and international monetary and fiscal theory and policy. A paper must have a genuine **international dimension** — a closed-economy labor or public-finance result, however clean, is off-fit unless the cross-border mechanism is central.
## The originality gate
