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aejmac-literature-positioning
Use when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy, contested, or undersold. Frames the marginal contribution against quantitative-theory and identified-empirical literatures; it does not fix the identification or the model itself.
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# Literature Positioning (aejmac-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The introduction cites many papers but never says what is *new*
- A referee could ask "how is this different from [the obvious prior paper]?" and you lack a one-line answer
- The paper sits between a theory literature and an empirical literature and the bridge is unclear
- The contribution is real but framed as incremental ("we extend X by adding Y")
## The AEJ: Macro positioning bar
AEJ: Macro is a **broad-interest** macro journal, so positioning must locate the paper for a *general* macro reader, not only for the three people working on the exact model or shock series. Two literatures usually bound a macro paper, and you must place the contribution against **both**:
- the **quantitative-theory** frontier (DSGE / HANK / heterogeneous-agent / structural) — what does your model deliver that the canonical model cannot?