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Use when a European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built or tightened — a pure-theory result, a quantitative/structural macro model, or a conceptual frame disciplining an empirical paper. Sharpens the model's contribution, assumptions, and link to data; it does not run the empirical identification or robustness.

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# Theory & Model Craft (eer-theory-model)

## When to trigger

- The paper is pure theory and the result needs to be sharp and general
- A macro/quantitative model needs discipline (calibration/estimation, mapping to data)
- An empirical paper needs a model to organize the mechanism and interpret estimates
- Reviewers ask "what is the model adding?" or "why these assumptions?"

## The EER theory bar

EER publishes **theory and empirical work across all fields**, so a model is judged on whether it yields a **general, interpretable result a non-specialist can grasp** — not machinery for its own sake. For pure theory: the proposition must be **clean, general, and economically meaningful**, with assumptions that are minimal and defended. For quantitative/structural work: the model must be **disciplined by data** (calibration targets or estimation) and used to deliver a **counterfactual or quantity** a reduced-form design cannot. For theory-disciplining-empirics: the model must **organize the mechanism** and tell the reader what the estimates mean.

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