jebo-referee-strategy

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Use when anticipating the objections a Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) referee will raise before submitting — demand effects, mechanism-vs-alternative, external validity, sibling-journal fit. Pre-empts the modal JEBO referee; it does not draft the rebuttal to a received report.

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Referee Strategy (jebo-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

The draft is near-complete and you want to find the holes a referee will find first
You suspect a referee will say "interesting, but it belongs in [sibling journal]"
You cannot articulate why your behavioral mechanism beats the obvious alternative
A coauthor wants to know which objections are fatal vs. addressable
You are deciding what to add now vs. defend in the response letter

Who referees for JEBO

JEBO uses single-anonymized review (referees anonymous, authors named), typically two-plus referees after an editor screen (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). The modal referee is a behavioral or experimental economist who has seen the closest prior experiment and is alert to the standard ways a behavioral claim can fail. Single-anonymized review means your name and prior work are visible — consistency with your own record and the relevant literature matters.

The objections JEBO referees raise most, and how to pre-empt

Referee objection	Pre-empt before submitting
"This could be an experimenter-demand effect."	Build in a demand-effect bound/treatment; address it in the text, not only if asked.
"Your mechanism isn't separated from [rival channel]."	Add a moderation/mediation test the rival does not predict; name the alternative explicitly.
"It's a single lab task — does it generalize?"	State the external-validity scope; if possible, a field or alternative-pool replication.
"Significance, but is the effect meaningful?"	Report effect sizes in interpretable units; compare to a behavioral benchmark.
"Why JEBO and not ExpEcon / GEB / JEP?"	Make the behavioral-economics contribution (not the method or the psychology) the headline.
"Many comparisons, no correction."	Pre-register the primary outcome; report MHT-corrected results.
"Is this just a replication?"	If partly, frame the value-added honestly (new pool, moderator, contested-result confirmation).
"The model adds notation but no testable prediction."	Ensure the theory yields a pre-stated comparative static the data test.

Triage: fatal vs. addressable

Fatal if unaddressed before submission: deception in an incentivized study without justification; no demand-effect consideration; a confound that fully substitutes for the claimed mechanism; clear wrong-journal fit.
Addressable now (cheap, do it): MHT correction, effect-size reporting, comprehension-pass subsample, balance/attrition tables, a falsification check.
Defensible in the letter (if cost is high): an additional subject pool, a full structural extension — flag in limitations and offer in the response if requested.

Suggesting and excluding reviewers

Editorial Manager lets you suggest/oppose reviewers. Suggest scholars who know the literature but are not close collaborators (single-anonymized review makes obvious conflicts visible); a credible suggestion of the scholar who owns the closest prior result can help, since they will be invited anyway.

Checklist

Each likely objection above has a pre-empt in the current draft or a planned response
Experimenter-demand and mechanism-vs-alternative are addressed in the text, not only reactively
External-validity scope is stated honestly
Effect sizes are interpretable; not relying on significance alone
The "why JEBO" answer is explicit and survives the sibling-journal test
MHT/pre-registration handled for multi-arm/multi-outcome designs
Reviewer suggestions/exclusions prepared with conflicts in mind

Anti-patterns

Hoping the referee won't notice the demand-effect or rival-mechanism gap
Answering "does it generalize?" with silence rather than a bounded scope statement
Leaning on asterisks when asked whether the effect is meaningful
Submitting a paper whose strongest fit is a sibling journal and hoping the editor disagrees
Suggesting only friendly reviewers (transparent under single-anonymized review)
Deferring cheap, obviously-required checks to "if the referee asks"

Output format

【Review model】single-anonymized; ~2+ referees after editor screen
【Top 3 anticipated objections】
  1. <objection> → <pre-empt: in-text now / planned response>
  2. ...
  3. ...
【Fatal-if-unaddressed】<list>
【Why-JEBO answer】<one sentence surviving sibling test>
【Reviewer suggestions/exclusions】<prepared>
【Next step】jebo-submission