Ha, I don't think that's counter - I often find myself in that position! The authors put together an event study, it's not convincing on its own because, and I have to ask them to do more!
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At the very least I ask them to fit their covariates + a linear trend interacted with treatment status on pre-period data, then see if that interaction term is significant
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What do you typically ask for?