journal-of-world-economy

《世界经济》 submission (journal-of-world-economy)

Journal positioning

Sponsored by the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, domesticinternational economics/open macrofirst-tier journal. The core marker isinternational perspective: trade, investment, finance, exchange rates, global value chains, openness and growth. A purely domestic article unrelated to "openness/external" factors, even if well done, is considered out of scope.

When to trigger

• The topic involves trade, tariffs, FDI, exchange rates, cross-border capital, GVCs, or global shocks
• Use China's opening-up policies (WTO accession, free trade zones, Belt and Road, foreign investment access) as quasi-experiments
• The article has an international dimension but is written as a "domestic policy evaluation," so the positioning is off
• Want to judge whether to submit to 《世界经济》 or 《金融研究》/《中国工业经济》

Topic preferences

1. Causal questions in an open economy: how external shocks/policies transmit through trade, investment, and financial channels
2. International comparison and global vision: cross-country data, multi-country panels, global value chain decomposition
3. Interaction between China and the world: the two-way impact of China's opening-up process on domestic and foreign actors
4. Chinese tests or extensions of international economic theory

Methods and data

• Mainstream: trade/customs microdata (e.g., firm-product-destination country), cross-country macro panels, input-output/GVC decomposition (e.g., KWW, ADB MRIO)
• Quasi-experimental identification is also valued: tariff shocks, trade agreements, exchange rate reform, and foreign investment negative list adjustments as exogenous variation
• Gravity models, event-study, shift-share (Bartik) instrumental variables are common—note the modern critiques of shift-share inference
• For macro-finance topics, VAR/local projections can be used to characterize shock transmission

Structure and writing

• The introduction should put the "international/open" dimension first, so reviewers can see at a glance that it fits the journal
• Mechanisms must be clearly explainedtransmission channels(trade channel, financial channel, expectation channel, ...)
• Engage with classic and frontier international trade/international finance literature (do not cite only domestic literature)
• Policy implications should lean toward theopening-up policylevel (trade, exchange rates, capital account, industrial opening)

Routing to prevent mis-submission

• This journal is quickly positioned as belonging to the "open economy and international issues" channel; only when the manuscript's core contribution satisfies "open economy, international trade, GVCs, exchange rates, FDI, or cross-country comparison must be the main contribution" should 《世界经济》 be the first choice.
• For similar profiles, compare first:journal-of-shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics(《上海财经大学学报》) / journal-of-shanxi-university-of-finance-and-economics(《山西财经大学学报》) / journal-of-zhongnan-university-of-economics-and-law(《中南财经政法大学学报》) / macroeconomics(《宏观经济研究》). If these journals' readership is closer, do not force submission to this journal merely because of similar names, regions, or variables.
• Common mis-submission: if it is only domestic policy evaluation, prioritize returning to general economics or industrial economics journals. Before formal advice, still enter the official verification checklist.

Official verification checklist

• Before formally giving submission format/process suggestions, first read ../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md, verify starting from the official source anchors therein or the entry point of the same organizing/publishing system, and state the verification date in the answer.
• Search for "The Journal of World Economy submission guidelines / call for papers / author guidelines", and rely on the official website, organizer page, editorial system, or the journal's official CNKI page
• Check whether anonymized main text, author information page, separate funding information sheet, abstract/keywords/JEL or Chinese Library Classification number, and figure/table/reference formatting are required
• Check whether there are requirements for data, code, supplementary materials, copyright agreement, no-fee statement, or special columns
• If this skill conflicts with the latest official requirements, the official requirements shall prevail

Pre-submission self-check

• The "international/open" dimension is established in the early part of the introduction, not tacked on as a label
• Transmission channels are clear (via trade/investment/finance/expectations)
• Data match international economic research (customs/cross-country panel/GVC)
• The identification and inference of shift-share / gravity models hold up
• The literature includes classics and frontiers in international trade/finance
• Policy implications fall at the level of open-economy policy

High-frequency rejection minefields

• The topic is actually a domestic issue, with "international" being just one sentence in the introduction
• GVC terminology is used but no decomposition is done, only narrative
• The shift-share IV does not discuss exogeneity of exposure/inference
• Only domestic literature is cited, lacking international dialogue
• The mechanism stops at "promoted exports" without clarifying the channel

Decision mnemonic

• "External shocks/open policy + transmission channels" → fits The Journal of World Economy
• "Landing point in banking/monetary policy/capital markets" → more suitable for Journal of Financial Research
• "Landing point in domestic industry/firm behavior" → more suitable for China Industrial Economics
• "Pure growth theory with cross-country comparison" → can aim for this journal, but needs empirical support

Output format

【匹配度】高 / 中 / 低
【国际维度】贸易 / 投资 / 金融 / 汇率 / GVC | 偏弱（需上移）
【传导渠道】<明确的渠道> | 缺失
【识别策略】<外生冲击/IV/event-study>
【数据对口度】海关/跨国/GVC | 一般国内数据
【建议去向】世界经济 / 金融研究 / 中国工业经济