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Guides navigating the Journal of Economic Growth editorial process: submission path, fit screening, referee expectations, desk-reject patterns, and review-stage planning.
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- You want to know how JEG will read a manuscript before submission
JEG is a specialist outlet for economic growth and dynamic macroeconomics. The review question is not "is this economics?" but "does this materially advance how we understand long-run growth, development, and dynamics?"
Reviewers typically evaluate:
Before submission, write one row for each likely objection:
Risk | Why a growth referee may raise it | Evidence in manuscript | Repair before submission
Common high-cost risks are: the mechanism is not about long-run growth, the model is too reduced-form to explain dynamics, the calibration is not tied to moments, the empirics show correlation without a growth interpretation, or the paper ignores canonical growth/development literature. If the repair requires new analysis, do it before upload; JEG's specialist audience is unlikely to treat a vague promise as enough.
The fastest rejections at this journal are fit failures visible from the abstract alone:
If the introduction cannot name which divergence, convergence, or transition question it moves, expect a desk decision rather than referee reports.
Illustrative case: a unified-growth-theory paper pairing a calibration with a historical validation panel will often draw one theory referee and one empirical referee. Plan for both scripts:
[Stage] pre-submit / under review / revision
[Main risk] fit / theory / empirics / calibration / exposition
[Action] ...
[Next step] jeg-submission or jeg-rebuttal
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