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Use when a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) decision letter has arrived and you need a response-letter strategy for an R&R or a reject-and-resubmit. Plans the revision and response; it does not pre-empt objections before submission (jimf-referee-strategy).

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# Rebuttal Strategy (jimf-rebuttal)

## When to trigger

- A JIMF decision letter arrived: major/minor revision, reject-and-resubmit, or a transfer offer
- Two referees disagree (one wants more identification, one wants more policy relevance) and you must reconcile
- A referee demands a check you think is wrong, infeasible, or fishing
- You need to convert a long, mixed report into a prioritized, point-by-point response plan

## Reading the JIMF letter

The editor's letter is the contract, not the referee reports. Read the editor's framing first: which concerns they emphasize, whether they signal the contribution is valued, and what they require versus what is "the referee suggests." At an Elsevier field journal the editor's synthesis governs; a referee's pet request can be respectfully declined if the editor did not endorse it and you give a reason. Sort every comment into: **must-do** (editor-endorsed or design-critical), **should-do** (improves the paper, feasible), **push-back** (wrong, infeasible, or out of scope — answered with evidence), and **defer** (out of scope for this paper, acknowledged as future work).

## The response letter, JIMF-style
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