jie-literature-positioning
Use to position a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript against the international-trade or open-economy-macro frontier — staking the contribution against gravity/structural-trade or international-finance literatures without writing a standalone survey. Sharpens positioning; it does not draft the paper.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-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 (jie-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The contribution is not yet stated sharply against the existing international-economics literature - A reviewer might say "this is already known" or "wrong comparison set" - You are writing a literature section that reads like a survey instead of a claim ## How to position at JIE JIE is a field journal, so positioning happens **within international economics**, against the right sub-literature — not against all of economics. Pin the paper to its frontier and state, in one or two sentences, what you add. Choose the comparison set deliberately: - **Trade**: gravity and structural gravity (Anderson–van Wincoop, Head–Mayer; PPML à la Santos Silva–Tenreyro), Eaton–Kortum / Melitz quantitative trade, commercial-policy and trade-agreement work (Staiger and co-authors), the China-shock / shift-share exposure literature, GVCs and trade in value added, spatial/economic-geography. - **International macro/finance**: open-economy macro and the small-open-economy/RBC-NK tradition (Uribe and co-authors), exchange-rate disconnect and pass-through (Engel and co-authors), sovereign default (Eaton–Gersovitz, Arellano), capital
- When to trigger
- How to position at JIE
- What referees check
- Anti-patterns
- Worked delta example (illustrative)
- Positioning pass for Journal of International Economics
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jie-literature-positioning skill do?
Use to position a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript against the international-trade or open-economy-macro frontier — staking the contribution against gravity/structural-trade or international-finance literatures without writing a standalone survey. Sharpens positioning; it does not draft the paper.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-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 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.