jleo-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript before submitting — modeling the institutional/organizational economist who will review it and pre-empting the objections that sink JLEO papers. Anticipates objections; it does not write the response to an actual report (jleo-rebuttal).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-referee-strategy --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.
# Referee Strategy (jleo-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - The paper is near submission and you want to see it through a JLEO referee's eyes first - You suspect a credibility gap (selection into governance, reform endogeneity, a decorative model) that a referee will find - The contribution is real but might read as "applied micro with institutional labels" to a TCE/PPE reviewer - You need to decide which weaknesses to fix now versus flag transparently in the cover letter - The paper sits near a sibling boundary and a referee might say "this belongs at JLE / Org Science" ## Who reviews at JLEO and what they look for JLEO referees are drawn from the institutional and organizational economics and PPE communities — people fluent in transaction-cost economics, contract theory, and the political economy of institutions. They are unusually attentive to two things generic economics referees are not: (1) whether the **institutional mechanism** is real and named, and (2) whether the empirical object — usually *chosen* by the agents — is credibly identified despite that choice. Model the reviewer, then pre-empt. ## The objections that recur at JLEO | Likely referee objection | Pre-empt b
- When to trigger
- Who reviews at JLEO and what they look for
- The objections that recur at JLEO
- Strategy moves
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the jleo-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript before submitting — modeling the institutional/organizational economist who will review it and pre-empting the objections that sink JLEO papers. Anticipates objections; it does not write the response to an actual report (jleo-rebuttal).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-referee-strategy --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.