eer-workflow

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Use when deciding which eer-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a European Economic Review (EER) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

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EER Workflow Router (eer-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which eer- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the European Economic Review (EER) — Elsevier's long-standing (founded 1969) general-interest European economics journal, hosted on ScienceDirect (ISSN 0014-2921). EER publishes all fields of economics, theory and empirical — macro, micro, labor, public, IO, international, finance, behavioral — and rewards papers of broad interest with a credible identification or theoretical contribution, not narrow field-specialist increments.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as EER. Operational tells that you are at EER and not a sibling or a field journal: submission is via Editorial Manager (editorialmanager.com/eerev); review is single-anonymized (single-blind — referees see author identities) (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准); there is a non-refundable submission fee (EUR 125 regular / EUR 100 PhD-student; Research4Life Group A waiver) (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准); accepted empirical/simulation/experimental papers must meet the mandatory replication policy (data, code, computational details before publication); house style is Elsevier-economics (structured abstract, JEL codes, keywords, research highlights, declaration of interest, standard errors reported). The "European" in the title is institutional history, not a scope restriction — topics need not be about Europe. Editors as of 2026 include Evi Pappa, David K. Levine, Stefania Garetto, Peter Rupert, Robert Sauer (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the official Elsevier/ScienceDirect pages.

When to trigger

The user asks "what should I do next?"
A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
Work is ping-ponging between identification, theory, writing, and the response letter
An EER decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode

Routing table

Current symptom	Next skill
Question feels narrow / field-specialist, not general-interest	`eer-topic-selection`
Contribution vs. the literature is fuzzy or oversold	`eer-literature-positioning`
Empirical causal design is shaky (OLS+controls, naive TWFE, weak IV)	`eer-identification`
A theory/model is needed or the existing one is loose	`eer-theory-model`
Results may not survive specification / sample / inference changes	`eer-robustness`
Exhibits are dense; significance asterisks dominate; no SEs	`eer-tables-figures`
Prose buries the idea; abstract/intro/highlights do not land	`eer-writing-style`
Data/code deposit, README, replication-policy prep	`eer-replication-package`
Want to anticipate referee objections before submitting	`eer-referee-strategy`
Ready to submit via Editorial Manager; need a preflight	`eer-submission`
Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy	`eer-rebuttal`

Default order

eer-topic-selection — confirm the question is general-interest, not field-niche
eer-literature-positioning — stake the contribution vs. the frontier (incl. vs. JEEA/EJ)
eer-identification — make the empirical causal design credible
eer-theory-model — build/tighten the model or conceptual frame
eer-robustness — stress-test estimates to specs, samples, inference
eer-tables-figures — exhibits with SEs, no significance-star worship
eer-writing-style — make the idea land (abstract + intro + highlights last)
eer-replication-package — assemble the mandatory-replication-policy deposit
eer-referee-strategy — pre-empt the objections a single-blind referee will raise
eer-submission — Editorial Manager preflight (fee, format, declarations)
eer-rebuttal — after the R&R

eer-writing-style is a late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before identification/theory settle. For a pure-theory paper, eer-theory-model precedes eer-identification (or replaces it).

Anti-patterns

Treating EER as a Europe-only or field journal — the bar is general interest across all of economics
Polishing exhibits (eer-tables-figures) while the identification is still moving
Deferring eer-replication-package until acceptance — assemble the deposit as you build results
Forgetting the non-refundable submission fee and submitting an out-of-scope paper that desk-rejects
Confusing EER with JEEA (the EEA's own flagship) or The Economic Journal (RES flagship)

Routing by paper archetype

EER spans theory and many empirical fields; the bottleneck differs by archetype. Read the row, then enter the chain at the right link.

Archetype	Likely first bottleneck	Enter at
applied micro / labor / public causal design	staggered-DID or weak-IV credibility	`eer-identification`
macro / quantitative model	model discipline + mapping to data	`eer-theory-model` → `eer-robustness`
pure theory / micro-theory	sharpness + generality of the result	`eer-theory-model`
experiment / behavioral	pre-registration, balance, MHT, instructions	`eer-identification` → `eer-replication-package`

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "My labor paper uses event-study DID on a staggered minimum-wage rollout, but a referee says the parallel-trends story is thin and the result might be driven by one state." Two distinct EER pushbacks — design credibility (heterogeneity-robust DID, clean pre-trends) owned by eer-identification, and fragility (leave-one-state-out, alternative samples) owned by eer-robustness. Route to eer-identification first; once the event-study leads are flat and the modern estimator agrees (say the effect settles at -2.1% employment, s.e. 0.8, illustrative), move to eer-robustness, then eer-tables-figures and eer-rebuttal.

Minimal decision snippet

if decision_letter_arrived:        -> eer-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit:              -> eer-submission
elif anticipating_referees:        -> eer-referee-strategy
elif deposit_or_replication:       -> eer-replication-package
elif exhibits_or_significance:     -> eer-tables-figures
elif results_may_be_fragile:       -> eer-robustness
elif needs_model:                  -> eer-theory-model
elif identification_shaky:         -> eer-identification
elif claim_or_positioning_fuzzy:   -> eer-literature-positioning
else:                              -> eer-topic-selection