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Use to frame the contribution of a manuscript for The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) so the industrial-organization advance is legible to the screening Editor and two referees within the hard page caps. Sharpens the one-sentence "so what"; it does not run the analysis.

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# Contribution Framing (rje-contribution-framing)

## When to trigger

- You have results but the "so what" for an IO audience is fuzzy
- The introduction reads like a methods exercise rather than a market insight
- You need the contribution to survive RJE's fast upfront editor screen

## Why framing matters at RJE

RJE manuscripts hit a **fast editor screen** before any refereeing — a Board Editor may **desk-reject** before two anonymous referees ever see the article. So the contribution must be **legible on page one**. And because the journal is the **IO flagship** (formerly the Bell Journal of Economics, sponsored by the RAND Corporation), the contribution is judged as an advance in **industrial organization** specifically, not as a general-economics result. The **hard page caps (40/50 pp)** mean you cannot bury the contribution behind pages of setup.

## The RJE contribution template
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