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ier-writing-style
Use when an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript's prose, intro, or abstract does not land for a rigor-leaning, broad economics audience. Sharpens the model-to-evidence narrative and the intro; it is a late-stage polish, not a content fix.
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# Writing Style (ier-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- The intro states what the paper does but never what is *new* and *general* by the end of page two
- A theory paper's proofs crowd out the intuition a non-specialist needs
- The abstract describes the topic but not the result and the contribution
- Reviewers (or coauthors) say the writing is correct but the idea does not "come through"
- The draft is over the ≤50-page ceiling and the prose, not the analysis, is the bloat
## The IER voice: rigorous, but legible to a broad audience
IER's audience is **broad and rigor-leaning** — a macro theorist, an econometrician, and an applied microeconomist may all referee it. So the writing must satisfy two masters: it must be *formally precise* (an IER referee will not forgive sloppy statements of results or assumptions) and *legible across fields* (the general reader must follow the mechanism without specialist priors). The house voice is not the breezy importance-pitch of a top-5 intro, nor the terse method-first prose of an Econometric Society paper — it is **clear formal economics with the intuition kept in the text**.
