jae-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript within the positive-accounting and economics literatures — joining the right conversation (capital-markets, contracting, disclosure, standards), engaging seminal economics-based work, and avoiding gap-spotting.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-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 for JAE (jae-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - Your intro says "no one has studied X" (gap-spotting) rather than naming a conversation - You are unsure which JAE literature stream your paper joins - A reviewer says the framing ignores the canonical economics-based work - You cite accounting descriptively but not the underlying economic theory ## Join an economics-based conversation, do not spot a gap JAE papers earn their place by advancing an ongoing **economics-based** conversation, not by filling an empty cell in a 2x2. Identify which stream you join and what tension you resolve: - **Capital-markets / information content**: the value-relevance and information-content tradition (Ball & Brown; Beaver; post-earnings-announcement drift; the disclosure-and-cost-of-capital literature). - **Financial contracting & monitoring**: debt-covenant and compensation contracting, conservatism as an efficient-contracting outcome (Watts; Ball-Shivakumar), agency-cost evidence. - **Disclosure**: voluntary vs. mandatory disclosure, unraveling, and its real and pricing consequences (Verrecchia; Healy & Palepu; Leuz & Wysocki). - **Standards & regulation**: the pol
- When to trigger
- Join an economics-based conversation, do not spot a gap
- Anchor on the seminal work
- Problematize, do not just extend
- Boundary check
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Journal of Accounting and Economics
- Output format
What does the jae-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript within the positive-accounting and economics literatures — joining the right conversation (capital-markets, contracting, disclosure, standards), engaging seminal economics-based work, and avoiding gap-spotting.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-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.