jie-rebuttal
Use when drafting the response letter for a revise-and-resubmit at the Journal of International Economics (JIE) — answering international-trade or open-economy-macro referees on gravity/structural specification, identification, and model discipline, and keeping the revision within JIE's scope and originality bar. Structures the rebuttal; it does not invent results.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-rebuttal --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.
# R&R Rebuttal (jie-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - You have an R&R decision from JIE and must write the response letter - Referees split between a trade reviewer and an international-macro/finance reviewer - A referee challenges your gravity specification, instrument, or structural model - You need to revise without drifting outside JIE's scope or originality gate ## How JIE rebuttals work JIE assigns referees from the relevant half of the field (international trade or international macro/finance), so a typical R&R has comments pulling in two methodological directions. Your letter must satisfy both while keeping the paper **original in its motivation or modelling structure** — the bar that got it past the desk. Address the handling **(Co-)Editor** first (Uribe, Arkolakis, or the editor assigned to your trade/macro topic), then each referee point by point. ## Structure 1. **Cover note to the editor**: one paragraph on the headline changes; reaffirm scope fit and what is now original/sharper. 2. **Per-referee, per-point**: quote the comment, state the change, point to the exact revised table/figure/section. Use a "Comment → Response → Where" pattern. 3. **Concessions and limits**: wh
- When to trigger
- How JIE rebuttals work
- Structure
- JIE-specific response tactics
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- Pushback-to-response patterns (JIE-specific)
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
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What does the jie-rebuttal skill do?
Use when drafting the response letter for a revise-and-resubmit at the Journal of International Economics (JIE) — answering international-trade or open-economy-macro referees on gravity/structural specification, identification, and model discipline, and keeping the revision within JIE's scope and originality bar. Structures the rebuttal; it does not invent results.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-rebuttal --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.