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Use when the contribution-vs-frontier claim is fuzzy, oversold, or under-cited for a European Economic Review (EER) manuscript spanning any field of economics. Sharpens the gap and the marginal contribution; it does not fix identification or prose.

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# Literature Positioning (eer-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The "what's new here" sentence is vague, defensive, or missing
- Reviewers say the contribution is "incremental" or "already known"
- The related-work section is a list of citations, not an argument
- You cannot name the 3–5 papers your result directly displaces or extends

## The EER positioning bar

EER is **general-interest across all of economics**, so the contribution must be legible to a reader **outside** your subfield while withstanding the scrutiny of those **inside** it. That means a two-layer positioning: (1) a **broad-interest hook** — why a generalist should care — and (2) a **precise frontier delta** — exactly which result you extend, overturn, or quantify, with the closest 3–5 papers named. Single-anonymized review means the **referees are likely the authors you cite**: be accurate and fair, neither dismissive nor over-deferential.

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