jae-theory-development
Use when building the economic argument and predictions for a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — grounding hypotheses in agency, information-economics, contracting, or disclosure theory so the paper applies economic theory to explain accounting phenomena rather than reporting a bare correlation.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-theory-development --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.
# Theory Development for JAE (jae-theory-development) ## When to trigger - Your predictions read as "A is associated with B" with no economic logic - A reviewer asks "what is the economic mechanism?" or "why would a rational agent do this?" - You have a result but no model of the friction generating it - You are deciding whether to support predictions with an analytical model or with cited economic theory ## JAE's theory bar: apply economics to accounting JAE exists to **apply economic theory to explain accounting phenomena**. A prediction must follow from an economic primitive, not from intuition. The canonical building blocks are: - **Agency theory** (Jensen-Meckling): contracting and monitoring of manager-shareholder and shareholder-creditor conflicts; accounting numbers as inputs to compensation and debt contracts. - **Information economics / disclosure theory** (Grossman-Hart-Milgrom unraveling; Verrecchia, Diamond-Verrecchia): when and why managers disclose, and the price/liquidity consequences of information asymmetry. - **Positive Accounting Theory** (Watts & Zimmerman, the founding editors): the bonus, debt-covenant, and political-cost determinants of accounting choice. -
- When to trigger
- JAE's theory bar: apply economics to accounting
- Build the argument
- Micro-rewrite: from association to economic hypothesis
- Opportunism vs. efficient contracting: pick a side
- A hypothesis table before the data
- Analytical vs. archival theory
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jae-theory-development skill do?
Use when building the economic argument and predictions for a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — grounding hypotheses in agency, information-economics, contracting, or disclosure theory so the paper applies economic theory to explain accounting phenomena rather than reporting a bare correlation.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-theory-development --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.