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jie-literature-positioning

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Use to position a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript against the international-trade or open-economy-macro frontier — staking the contribution against gravity/structural-trade or international-finance literatures without writing a standalone survey. Sharpens positioning; it does not draft the paper.

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# Literature Positioning (jie-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The contribution is not yet stated sharply against the existing international-economics literature
- A reviewer might say "this is already known" or "wrong comparison set"
- You are writing a literature section that reads like a survey instead of a claim

## How to position at JIE

JIE is a field journal, so positioning happens **within international economics**, against the right sub-literature — not against all of economics. Pin the paper to its frontier and state, in one or two sentences, what you add. Choose the comparison set deliberately:

- **Trade**: gravity and structural gravity (Anderson–van Wincoop, Head–Mayer; PPML à la Santos Silva–Tenreyro), Eaton–Kortum / Melitz quantitative trade, commercial-policy and trade-agreement work (Staiger and co-authors), the China-shock / shift-share exposure literature, GVCs and trade in value added, spatial/economic-geography.
- **International macro/finance**: open-economy macro and the small-open-economy/RBC-NK tradition (Uribe and co-authors), exchange-rate disconnect and pass-through (Engel and co-authors), sovereign default (Eaton–Gersovitz, Arellano), capital flows and the global financial cycle, international pricing and currency of invoicing.
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