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review-of-economic-studies
Use when targeting Review of Economic Studies (REStud) or deciding whether an economics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Review of Economic Studies (review-of-economic-studies)
## Journal positioning
REStud is one of the economics "top-5" (with AER, QJE, JPE, Econometrica), European-leaning and run by an active scholarly board. It is strong in theory and frontier methods and is known for publishing ambitious, technically serious work — historically a natural home for outstanding junior-scholar papers. The editorial culture prizes novelty and rigor across fields: a paper that does something genuinely new, whether a new model, a new method, or a striking new result, for a discipline-wide readership.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the REStud / Oxford University Press site and the editorial submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names REStud (or the top-5 with a novel theoretical/methodological angle) as the target venue.
- An ambitious paper — often by a junior scholar — pushes a frontier in theory, methods, or design and the author is choosing among the top-5.
- A technically serious paper needs re-framing so its novelty and rigor, not just its topic, lead the contribution.
- The author needs REStud's desk-reject risks and a credible top-5 / top-field alternative list.