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jue-literature-positioning
Use when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Stakes the marginal contribution against the right spatial literatures and the sibling journals; it does not design the identification or draft the prose.
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# Literature Positioning (jue-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The intro cites broadly but never says *what is new* relative to the urban-econ frontier
- A referee could say "this confirms what Rosen–Roback / spatial-equilibrium theory already implies"
- The contribution is buried under a generic "the literature has not examined city Y" claim
- You are unsure which strand (agglomeration, housing, sorting, transport, local public finance, place-based policy) you are actually contributing to
- The paper reads as adjacent to JUE — it could be sent to RSUE, JEG, or JPubE without changing a word
## Position against the right spatial literature, not the world
JUE referees are urban economists; they know the canonical frames and will test whether you have advanced one. Anchor the contribution in the **specific** strand you move, then state the delta precisely.
