jae-topic-selection
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for the Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) — testing economics-based fit, distinguishing JAE from JAR/TAR/RAST, and ensuring the question is about accounting's economic role rather than a normative or behavioral puzzle.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-topic-selection --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.
# Topic Selection & JAE Fit (jae-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a dataset or a hunch but no economics-based question - You are unsure whether the idea belongs at JAE versus JAR, TAR, RAST, or a finance journal - A coauthor frames the project normatively ("how should firms report?") rather than positively - The question is "interesting" but you cannot name the economic mechanism ## The JAE fit test JAE publishes **positive (economics-based) accounting research**. A fitting question lives in one of its core domains and is driven by an economic force: 1. **Accounting within the firm** — internal control, budgeting, performance measurement as economic mechanisms. 2. **Information content in capital markets** — how accounting numbers move prices, returns, liquidity, analyst behavior. 3. **Financial contracting & monitoring** — debt covenants, executive compensation, agency relationships, governance. 4. **Determination of accounting standards** — the political/economic forces shaping GAAP/IFRS. 5. **Regulation of disclosure and the profession** — SEC/PCAOB rules, mandatory vs. voluntary disclosure, audit. Ask: *What economic friction (information asymmetry, agency conflic
- When to trigger
- The JAE fit test
- Positive, not normative
- Micro-rewrite: from dataset hunch to JAE question
- The desk-screen stress test
- Choosing among accounting journals
- A "ready" JAE question
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jae-topic-selection skill do?
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for the Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) — testing economics-based fit, distinguishing JAE from JAR/TAR/RAST, and ensuring the question is about accounting's economic role rather than a normative or behavioral puzzle.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-topic-selection --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.