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imfer-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question is right for an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript — international macro-finance with genuine policy relevance and an IMF-program or global-institution audience. Tests fit and scope; it does not run the identification (imfer-identification) or stake the contribution (imfer-literature-positioning).
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# Topic Selection (imfer-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You have a question but are unsure it clears IMFER's **international-macro-with-policy-relevance** bar
- The paper could plausibly go to JIE, JIMF, JMCB, AEJ: Macro, or *Economic Policy* and you must decide
- A reduced-form estimate is clean but you cannot name the **policy "so what"** the IMF audience needs
- You were invited to the Jacques Polak ARC / a special issue and must align the question to the issue theme
- A coauthor asks whether the topic is "too domestic" or "too narrowly technical" for IMFER
## What IMFER actually wants
IMFER is the IMF's flagship scholarly journal: it rewards **rigorous research on international macroeconomics and finance whose findings speak to policy** — exchange rates and capital flows, global imbalances, financial crises and contagion, sovereign debt and default, monetary and fiscal policy in open economies, IMF-program-relevant questions, and cross-border spillovers. The double audience is the test: a paper must satisfy a frontier referee on method *and* give someone who could brief an IMF mission a usable implication. A purely domestic US-macro question, or a methods paper with no open-economy or policy hook, is the classic mis-fit.
