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jie-rebuttal
Use when drafting the response letter for a revise-and-resubmit at the Journal of International Economics (JIE) — answering international-trade or open-economy-macro referees on gravity/structural specification, identification, and model discipline, and keeping the revision within JIE's scope and originality bar. Structures the rebuttal; it does not invent results.
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# R&R Rebuttal (jie-rebuttal)
## When to trigger
- You have an R&R decision from JIE and must write the response letter
- Referees split between a trade reviewer and an international-macro/finance reviewer
- A referee challenges your gravity specification, instrument, or structural model
- You need to revise without drifting outside JIE's scope or originality gate
## How JIE rebuttals work
JIE assigns referees from the relevant half of the field (international trade or international macro/finance), so a typical R&R has comments pulling in two methodological directions. Your letter must satisfy both while keeping the paper **original in its motivation or modelling structure** — the bar that got it past the desk. Address the handling **(Co-)Editor** first (Uribe, Arkolakis, or the editor assigned to your trade/macro topic), then each referee point by point.
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