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geb-identification-strategy
Use when the analytical core of a Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) manuscript is the bottleneck — assumptions, theorem statements, proof exposition, and generality for a game-theory paper (and the experimental-identification analogue for behavioral work). Stress-tests the argument's correctness, tightness, and readability.
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# Identification Strategy — Assumptions, Results & Proofs (geb-identification-strategy)
## When to trigger
- The theorem is (you believe) true but the proof is hard to follow or audit
- You are unsure which assumptions are doing the work versus merely convenient
- A reviewer may ask "does this hold without assumption A / with infinite players / in continuous time?"
- For experimental work: the design does not cleanly separate competing strategic theories
## What "identification" means at a theory journal
GEB is a **game-theory** journal, so for theoretical papers the "identification strategy" is the **logical architecture of the result**, not a causal-inference design. The bar is correctness, tightness, and generality, with proofs a referee can verify. Because the Editor in Charge routes the paper to an **anonymous Advisory Editor** and expert referees, the argument must withstand specialists who will reconstruct each step. Treat this skill in two branches.
### Branch A — Theory (equilibrium, mechanism design, learning)