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Use when responding to a revise-and-resubmit from The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — answering the two anonymous referees and the handling Editor on an industrial-organization manuscript while respecting the hard page caps and RJE house style. Strategy for the response letter; it does not rewrite the article.

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# R&R Rebuttal Strategy (rje-rebuttal)

## When to trigger

- You received an R&R from the RJE handling Editor with two referee reports
- You must reconcile conflicting referee demands without blowing the 50-page cap
- You are drafting the point-by-point response letter

## RJE-specific rebuttal posture

RJE decisions come from a **handling Editor** synthesizing **two anonymous referees** after an upfront screen, so the Editor's letter is the binding document — prioritize the points the Editor flags, then address each referee. Two structural constraints shape the response:

- **Page caps are hard.** Main text **<=40 pp**, total **<=50 pp**, double-spaced. You usually cannot satisfy every referee by adding material. Move new robustness, derivations, and counterfactuals into the **appendix** (counts toward the <=10-page appendix+references budget) or, sparingly, into **supporting information** — but note RJE **discourages supporting information** and may decline it, so do not park core results there.
- **House style persists in the revision.** Keep author-date cites with **no page numbers**, references with **no issue numbers**, unnumbered subsections, and the usage rules (because/as not *since*; whereas/although not *while*; **"article"** not *"paper"*). A revision that drifts off style reads as careless.
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