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Use when the contribution of a Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) manuscript relative to the frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or undersold. Stakes the marginal contribution for a general-interest readership; it does not fix identification, the model, or prose.

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# Literature Positioning (jeea-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The "we are the first to…" claim is fragile or unverifiable
- A referee could name three close papers you have not distinguished from
- The contribution paragraph lists what you do, not what is *new*
- The paper reads as incremental relative to an obvious recent reference

## The JEEA positioning bar

JEEA is a **general-interest** journal, so positioning must convince a broad reader — not just subfield specialists — that the **marginal contribution** is real and consequential. Two failure modes are fatal here: (1) the contribution is genuine but framed for insiders, so a general-interest co-editor cannot see it; (2) the contribution is overstated relative to a close paper a referee will instantly recall. Position against the **frontier**, name the closest 2–3 papers explicitly, and state in one sentence what your paper establishes that none of them does.

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