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ecopol-literature-positioning
Use when staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature. Sharpens the policy-and-academic positioning; it does not invent evidence or citations.
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# Literature Positioning (ecopol-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The contribution is clear to specialists but the *policy* novelty is fuzzy
- A reviewer/discussant could say "we already knew this" or "this is just AEJ:EP / J.Pub.E. material"
- The draft cites the academic frontier but ignores the policy-debate frontier (think tanks, central banks, the Commission)
- You cannot say in one sentence what the paper changes for the policy conversation
- The framing leans on one country/episode and a discussant will ask "why does Europe/the world care?"
## EP positions on two frontiers at once
Most economics journals ask you to position against one literature — the academic frontier. EP asks for **two simultaneous positions**, because the paper is published with two discussants (one academic, one policy) and read by both audiences:
