# Public submission-preflight status

Updated: 2026-07-15  
Manuscript state: frozen submission candidate  
Recommended first target: *Journal of Political Economy*, pending author approval  
External status: not submitted; no journal decision

## Technical and package result

The deterministic local submission preflight reports **7 passes and 0 failures**:

1. required package files are present;
2. title, abstract, and JEL fields are present;
3. the SHA-256 manifest completely covers and validates 21 package files;
4. the mathematical suite reports 132 passes and 0 failures;
5. the self-contained source completes a clean independent three-pass TeX build;
6. the independently rebuilt PDF passes structural validation; and
7. the packaged manuscript PDF passes structural validation.

The public PDF and source match the frozen canonical hashes:

- Source:
  `d14a94620845a47552422c2b32c35356bfd0cb8055d1f1679d0771b04173ec0e`
- PDF:
  `c95b7cff62a375ad456e953556f615de25cbd5071c5de8ac151f3c825739aae8`

## Remaining gate

Submission awaits author-controlled information and authority: the author and
affiliation block, correspondence details, journal approval, exclusivity, related-work
disclosure, conflicts, funding, AI-use disclosure after personal verification, fee
authorization, and final approval of the uploaded PDF.

Those fields are intentionally not published here. This administrative gate is not a
technical failure and is not evidence of journal acceptance. The paper will not be
submitted or substantively revised without the appropriate human authorization or new
external evidence.