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jleo-referee-strategy

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Use when anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript before submitting — modeling the institutional/organizational economist who will review it and pre-empting the objections that sink JLEO papers. Anticipates objections; it does not write the response to an actual report (jleo-rebuttal).

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# Referee Strategy (jleo-referee-strategy)

## When to trigger

- The paper is near submission and you want to see it through a JLEO referee's eyes first
- You suspect a credibility gap (selection into governance, reform endogeneity, a decorative model) that a referee will find
- The contribution is real but might read as "applied micro with institutional labels" to a TCE/PPE reviewer
- You need to decide which weaknesses to fix now versus flag transparently in the cover letter
- The paper sits near a sibling boundary and a referee might say "this belongs at JLE / Org Science"

## Who reviews at JLEO and what they look for

JLEO referees are drawn from the institutional and organizational economics and PPE communities — people fluent in transaction-cost economics, contract theory, and the political economy of institutions. They are unusually attentive to two things generic economics referees are not: (1) whether the **institutional mechanism** is real and named, and (2) whether the empirical object — usually *chosen* by the agents — is credibly identified despite that choice. Model the reviewer, then pre-empt.
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