ier-workflow
IER Workflow Router (ier-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It tells you which ier- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the International Economic Review (IER) — the broad, rigor-leaning general-interest journal founded in 1960 "to provide a forum for modern quantitative economics," owned by the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania together with the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka University, and published with Wiley. "International" names the Penn–Osaka partnership (and the Klein Lectures it hosts), not a field restriction: IER covers economic theory, econometrics, quantitative/structural macro, and applied micro, with a pronounced theory/structural tilt and a premium on methodological rigor, generality, and a clean model-to-evidence link.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as IER. Operational tells that you are at IER and not a sibling: submission runs through Editorial Express (editorialexpress.com/ier), not ScholarOne/Manuscript Central (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准); there is a flat US$150 / ¥15,000 submission fee and the paper is not reviewed until it is paid; the manuscript ceiling is ≤50 pages, double-spaced; the journal adopted the AER data availability policy effective Jan 1, 2022. Editor names and exact figures are volatile — re-verify on the official Penn/Wiley pages (待核实).
When to trigger
- The user asks "what should I do next?" on an IER-bound draft
- A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
- Work is ping-ponging between theory/model, identification, evidence, exhibits, and the response letter
- An IER decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode
- The team is weighing IER against Econometrica/QE, a top-5, or a field journal