jleo-theory-model
Use when building or sharpening the formal model for a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — transaction-cost, incomplete-contracts / property-rights, principal-agent, or political-agency models of institutions and organizations. Right-sizes and disciplines the model; it does not run the empirics (jleo-identification, jleo-robustness).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-theory-model --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.
# Theory & Model Craft (jleo-theory-model) ## When to trigger - A verbal institutional argument needs to be formalized into testable predictions - A formal model exists but its assumptions or comparative statics are not tied to the institution it describes - A referee asks "what is the model actually adding beyond the intuition?" - The paper is a pure-theory JLEO submission and must deliver a sharp, novel institutional mechanism - An empirical paper needs a minimal model to define the estimand and generate the sign predictions it tests ## The JLEO modeling tradition JLEO is unusual in welcoming both **standalone formal theory** and **empirical work disciplined by a model**, but in both cases the model must be a *model of an institution or organization*, in one of the house lineages: - **Transaction-cost economics (Williamson):** asset specificity, uncertainty, frequency → governance choice (market / hybrid / hierarchy). The model's job is to predict which governance form economizes on transaction costs. - **Incomplete contracts / property rights (Grossman–Hart–Moore):** residual control rights, non-contractible investment, ownership allocation. The model predicts who should own wha
- When to trigger
- The JLEO modeling tradition
- Right-sizing the model
- Craft moves JLEO referees reward
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the jleo-theory-model skill do?
Use when building or sharpening the formal model for a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — transaction-cost, incomplete-contracts / property-rights, principal-agent, or political-agency models of institutions and organizations. Right-sizes and disciplines the model; it does not run the empirics (jleo-identification, jleo-robustness).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-theory-model --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.