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Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) R&R or decision letter arrived and you need a response-letter strategy for a dual academic/policy referee panel. Plans and drafts the response; it returns to imfer-submission for the resubmission preflight and does not re-run the original identification (imfer-identification).

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# Rebuttal Strategy (imfer-rebuttal)

## When to trigger

- An IMFER R&R (major or minor) arrived and you must turn referee reports into a revision plan
- The editor's letter prioritizes some points over others and you must read the signal
- A referee asks for a new identification check, a country-composition test, or a stronger policy framing
- Two referees disagree — one academic-leaning, one policy-leaning — and you must satisfy both
- You need to decide what to concede, what to push back on, and what to defer
- A referee requests a major redesign and you must decide whether to comply, push back, or withdraw

## How to read an IMFER decision letter

IMFER R&Rs usually carry the **dual signature** of the pool: an academic referee pressing on identification and frontier novelty, and a reader pressing on **policy relevance and program realism**. Start from the **editor's letter** — it ranks the points and signals which are deal-breakers. The classic IMFER revision arc is: shore up the cross-country design, add the composition/common-shock checks the referees expect, and **sharpen (or appropriately bound) the policy implication** without overreaching. Treat the academic and policy concerns as two tracks that must both be closed.
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