Skill UI

This skill is designed to assess the suitability of international macroeconomics and finance manuscripts for the IMF Economic Review. It evaluates the paper's fit, theoretical rigor, evidence quality, and adherence to open-economy principles. It provides crucial pre-submission self-checks, potential desk-reject risks, and re-routing suggestions to guide authors toward the most appropriate academic venue.

This guide provides advanced methodological guidance for establishing causality and identifying policy effects within complex international macro datasets. It covers best practices for cross-country panel analyses, high-frequency policy surprise detection, crisis event studies, and structural modeling, ensuring that observed variation is rigorously linked to policy-relevant factors, respecting cross-country dependence and global shocks.

This comprehensive guide teaches researchers how to sharply position their economic manuscripts. It helps identify the unique contribution (the 'delta') relative to the closest existing literature, especially when targeting high-impact journals like the IMF Economic Review (IMFER). It emphasizes connecting academic findings to global policy debates and differentiating the work from related fields (JIE, JIMF).

A comprehensive guide detailing the strategy for responding to major or minor revisions (R&R) in academic journals, particularly in economics. It teaches authors how to balance conflicting academic demands (identification, robustness) with policy relevance, structuring the response letter to be both academically rigorous and highly persuasive. Essential for improving publication chances.

A comprehensive guide for researchers submitting to the IMF Economic Review (IMFER). It teaches authors how to anticipate the toughest, predictable critiques from international macroeconomic and policy referees—such as cross-country bias, policy overreach, and identification weaknesses. By pre-empting these objections, authors can significantly strengthen their manuscript structure before formal submission.

This package ensures full reproducibility for international macroeconomics research. It is designed for projects utilizing complex, multi-source, and often restricted data (such as IMF or central bank files). It mandates capturing the entire data lineage, pinning the execution environment (R, Python, Stata), and documenting access instructions, allowing any authorized replicator to rebuild the analysis from scratch.

A comprehensive toolkit designed for international macroeconomics research, ensuring that headline estimates are stable and reliable. It systematically tests the robustness of findings against common methodological threats, such as leaving out individual countries, changing sample periods, controlling for global common shocks, or varying estimation specifications. Essential for submitting high-impact academic papers.

A detailed guide for authors preparing manuscripts for the IMF Economic Review (IMFER). This checklist ensures compliance with strict academic publishing standards, including double-blind anonymization, proper formatting (Chicago style, JEL codes), and the correct separation of author-identifying information before final submission via Editorial Manager.

A comprehensive guide for preparing high-impact tables and figures for IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscripts. It dictates best practices for communicating international macro results to a dual audience of econometric referees and policy makers. Key principles include transparent country coverage, replacing significance asterisks with confidence intervals, and expressing coefficients in policy-relevant units (e.g., % of GDP).

This guide provides expert advice on balancing rigorous theoretical modeling (like DSGE) with empirical data in international macroeconomics. It teaches authors how to appropriately "right-size" theoretical components, ensuring the model is disciplined by data and delivers policy-relevant counterfactuals, which is crucial for publication in top journals like IMFER.

This guide helps researchers assess the scope and fit of their international macro-finance topics for the IMF Economic Review (IMFER). It emphasizes the necessity of linking rigorous academic findings to explicit, global policy relevance, especially concerning open economies, capital flows, and global spillovers.

This router guides authors through the complex, multi-stage process of optimizing a manuscript for submission to the IMF Economic Review (IMFER). It systematically diagnoses bottlenecks—from topic selection and literature positioning to model robustness and rebuttal strategy—ensuring the paper meets the high standards of international macroeconomics and policy relevance.