ectheory-literature-positioning
Use to stake an Econometric Theory (ET) contribution against the existing theory frontier — which assumptions you weaken, which limit result you generalize, what was previously unproven — using APA author-date citations, not a standalone literature survey.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ectheory-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (ectheory-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The introduction lists prior papers without saying precisely what is *new* in your theorem - A referee might ask "isn't this a special case of X?" and you have no crisp answer - You need to show your regularity conditions are weaker (or your environment broader) than prior work - Setting up the citation apparatus in ET's **APA author-date** style ## How ET positioning differs ET is a theory journal: positioning is **theorem-to-theorem**, not "gap in the empirical literature." The reader is an econometric theorist who will immediately map your result onto the known limit theory. Your job is to locate your contribution on that lattice precisely: 1. **Name the closest prior result** and its assumptions/scope exactly. 2. **State the delta** in one sentence: weaker moment conditions, dependent vs i.i.d. data, nonstationary vs stationary, fixed vs growing dimension, sharp vs conservative inference, etc. 3. **Say what was previously unproven or only conjectured** that you now prove. 4. **Acknowledge concurrent/overlapping work** fairly — in a small theory community, the editors and referees usually know it. Be
- When to trigger
- How ET positioning differs
- Citation mechanics (ET house style)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Locating the theorem on the limit-theory lattice
- Positioning pass for Econometric Theory
- Output format
What does the ectheory-literature-positioning skill do?
Use to stake an Econometric Theory (ET) contribution against the existing theory frontier — which assumptions you weaken, which limit result you generalize, what was previously unproven — using APA author-date citations, not a standalone literature survey.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ectheory-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.