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aeri-referee-strategy
Use when calibrating expectations for the fast, decisive American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) review process — conditional-accept-or-reject decisions, the single-round model, and pre-empting the objections a short paper cannot afford. Explains the process and stress-tests the paper; it does not write the response letter (see aeri-rebuttal).
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# Referee Strategy & the Fast Review Model (aeri-referee-strategy)
## When to trigger
- Before submission, to understand how AER: Insights decides and what referees punish
- Deciding whether the paper can survive a process with **no traditional R&R**
- Anticipating the one or two objections that would sink a short paper
- Choosing whether to risk AER: Insights vs. a journal that offers multiple rounds
## The AER: Insights process (official AEA baseline checked 2026-06-20)
AER: Insights runs **single-blind** AEA peer review: authors are visible to referees, while referees
remain anonymous to authors. It is deliberately **fast and decisive**:
