jae-contribution-framing
Use when articulating the contribution of a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — stating explicitly what the paper teaches about accounting's economic role (information content, contracting, disclosure, standards) and why an economics-based result advances the positive-accounting literature beyond an incremental correlation.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-contribution-framing --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.
# Contribution Framing for JAE (jae-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - Results exist but the "so what for accounting and economics?" is thin - A reviewer calls the contribution "incremental" or "a known result in a new sample" - The intro promises a contribution the results do not actually deliver - You cannot say in one sentence what economic understanding the paper changes ## What counts as a JAE contribution JAE rewards advancing the **economic understanding** of an accounting phenomenon, not merely documenting a new association. A strong contribution does one or more of: - **Identifies a mechanism**: shows *why* accounting matters economically (e.g., disclosure reduces information asymmetry and thereby the cost of capital), with cross-sectional evidence tied to the friction. - **Resolves an economic tension**: adjudicates between competing economics-based explanations (efficient contracting vs. opportunism; information vs. agency). - **Exploits a clean identification**: turns a correlation the literature knew into a credibly causal economic result via a shock/IV/RD. - **Informs standards or regulation positively**: shows the economic consequences of a rule (SOX, IFRS, R
- When to trigger
- What counts as a JAE contribution
- Make the contribution explicit and economic
- Honest scope
- Where it appears
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Contribution pass for Journal of Accounting and Economics
- Output format
What does the jae-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when articulating the contribution of a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — stating explicitly what the paper teaches about accounting's economic role (information content, contracting, disclosure, standards) and why an economics-based result advances the positive-accounting literature beyond an incremental correlation.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-contribution-framing --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 909 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.