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expecon-literature-positioning
Use when staking an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript's contribution against prior experiments and the behavioral theory it tests. Sharpens positioning; it does not invent results or citations.
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# Literature Positioning (expecon-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- A referee or coauthor says "we already know this" — the marginal contribution over existing experiments is unclear
- Your design is close to a canonical paradigm (dictator, ultimatum, public goods, trust, beauty contest, double auction) and you must show what is genuinely new
- The intro cites behavioral theory but never says which prediction your treatment *adjudicates*
- You are unsure whether your novelty is a new **treatment**, a new **method/elicitation**, a **replication**, or a **boundary condition**
## What counts as a contribution here
At a method-defined journal, positioning is not "no one has studied topic X." It is "**no prior design could deliver the comparison I deliver**." Locate your paper on this ladder, from weakest to strongest:
1. **Re-label** — same paradigm, new cover story. Usually insufficient on its own.