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jegeo-rebuttal

Use when a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) decision letter arrives and you must plan a revision and response that satisfies a cross-disciplinary referee pair. Structures the rebuttal; it does not invent results or concede the core claim.

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# Rebuttal Strategy (jegeo-rebuttal)

## When to trigger

- An R&R or major-revision letter arrived and you must triage the reports
- The two referees pull in opposite directions — the economist wants more identification, the geographer wants more mechanism/context
- A referee asks for spatial work (different scale, weight matrix, spillover analysis) and you must decide how far to go
- You need a response letter that reads as responsive to *both* communities and to the editor

## Read the panel before you write a word

At JEG the reports almost always come from **both communities**, and the most common rebuttal failure is answering the referee you understand and brushing off the other. Before drafting, classify every comment by where it comes from and what it really wants:

| Comment type | Likely source | What it actually demands |
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