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Use when judging whether a topic is a timely, important policy question the Economic Policy (EP) Panel would commission and want to debate. Tests Panel-worthiness and policy timeliness; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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# Topic Selection (ecopol-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You are deciding whether a question is worth pitching to *Economic Policy* or developing for a possible commission
- A coauthor asks "is this an EP paper, or a field-journal paper dressed up as policy?"
- The topic is technically interesting but you cannot name the **decision** a policymaker faces
- The question risks reading as last decade's debate rather than a live European/global policy issue
- You need to know which of the two likely discussants (academic vs. policy) would find it worth their time

## The EP topic bar: would the Panel commission this?

Since the 2025 relaunch, EP is **commissioned and online-only** — the Managing Editor invites papers on the journal's thematic priorities; unsolicited papers are not accepted (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). In practice the realistic route is to **become the obvious person to commission**: circulate a working draft, pitch the Managing Editor, or get visible inside the CEPR/CESifo/Sciences Po networks. So topic selection is really *Panel selection*: would the Panel put this in front of two discussants and a room of economists and policymakers?
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