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Use when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal or a sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA manuscript. Tests general-interest fit and sharpens the question; it does not design the empirics or model.

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# Topic Selection & Fit (jeea-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- The question feels important within one subfield but you are unsure it travels
- You are choosing between JEEA, *The Economic Journal*, the *European Economic Review*, a field journal, or a top-5
- A draft answers a narrow technical question with no broad lesson
- A co-author asks "is this a JEEA paper?"

## The JEEA fit bar

JEEA is the **EEA's general-interest journal** for high-quality theoretical and empirical economics. The bar is **general interest at a high theory-and-empirics standard**: a paper must matter to a broad economics readership, not only to specialists in its subfield. JEEA is genuinely **field-agnostic** — micro and macro theory, applied econometrics, applied micro, finance, development, public all appear — so what discriminates is not the field but whether the **lesson generalizes** and whether the **execution clears a strong methodological bar** for either a credible empirical design or a disciplined model.

Two questions decide fit:
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