jie-contribution-framing
Use to frame the contribution of a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript so it clears the journal's gate that work be original in its motivation or modelling structure — articulating what is new for international trade or international macro/finance, for an audience split between the two halves of the field. Frames the "what's new"; it does not produce the results.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-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 (jie-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - The results exist but the "so what / what's new" is not crisp - A referee might say "incremental" or "not original enough" - You need to state the contribution in JIE's own terms before writing the intro ## JIE's originality gate JIE accepts both empirical and theoretical work, but it must be **original in its motivation or modelling structure**. This is the exact bar to frame against — not "important" or "policy-relevant" in the abstract, but **new in motivation or new in modelling**. Choose the axis your paper actually delivers on: - **Motivation originality**: a new international-economics question, a new fact, or new data the field did not have — e.g., a novel tariff/NTM dataset, firm-level customs records, a new measure of capital flows, exchange-rate pass-through, or sovereign-spread dynamics. Frame it as "the field believed/assumed X; with [new data/fact] we show Y." - **Modelling originality**: a non-trivial new mechanism or structure — e.g., a new ingredient in an Eaton–Kortum/Melitz trade model, a new channel in a small-open-economy DSGE, or a new sovereign-default mechanism. Frame it as "existing mode
- When to trigger
- JIE's originality gate
- Frame for the right half of the field
- A one-paragraph contribution statement
- Anti-patterns
- Worked framing example (illustrative)
- Contribution pass for Journal of International Economics
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jie-contribution-framing skill do?
Use to frame the contribution of a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript so it clears the journal's gate that work be original in its motivation or modelling structure — articulating what is new for international trade or international macro/finance, for an audience split between the two halves of the field. Frames the "what's new"; it does not produce the results.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-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.