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joe-identification-strategy
Use when the assumptions, regularity conditions, identification result, and asymptotic theory of a Journal of Econometrics (JoE) methodological paper are the bottleneck. Stress-tests the formal core — what is assumed, what is proved, and how general it is — before tables are drafted.
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# Identification & Asymptotic Strategy (joe-identification-strategy)
## When to trigger
- The estimand is not formally identified, or identification is asserted not proved
- Regularity conditions are stated loosely or are non-primitive (they smuggle in the conclusion)
- The limiting distribution / convergence rate is claimed without a derivation path
- You are unsure the result is general enough, or whether the conditions are verifiable
## The JoE formal bar
At the *Journal of Econometrics*, "identification strategy" means the **formal core**: the assumptions under which the estimand is identified, the estimator is consistent, and inference is valid. The house norm is **mathematical rigor** — proofs and asymptotic derivations are expected, and referees probe whether conditions are *primitive and verifiable*, whether the asymptotics are honest, and whether the result generalizes beyond a convenient special case. This is methodology, not applied causal design: the deliverable is theorems plus the Monte Carlo that shows the asymptotics bite in finite samples.
## The formal-core checklist