jpe-referee-strategy
Use when running a pre-submission pre-mortem on a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) manuscript to anticipate the price-theory, general-equilibrium, and identification objections a Chicago referee will raise. Builds the threat list and pre-empts it; it does not write the R&R response (see jpe-rebuttal).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpe-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 & Pre-Mortem (jpe-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - Identification, model, and robustness are in place and you want to harden the paper before submitting - You want to anticipate the report rather than react to it - You sense a likely objection but have not addressed it in the text - You are choosing how to frame the contribution to survive a demanding economics referee ## How JPE referees read JPE referees read the paper as an **economic argument** and probe its internal consistency. The prototypical Chicago referee asks: does this respect optimization, prices, incentives, and equilibrium? They are unimpressed by a clean coefficient with no economic meaning, and they will name the alternative mechanism or the GE force you ignored. Anticipating these is worth more than any extra robustness table. The process is selective and demanding, and JPE-specific: a **co-editor** (the board is led by Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and weighted toward University of Chicago faculty) runs the desk screen; review is **single-blind** (referees know who you are); and the **$250 / $125 submission fee is non-refundable even on a desk reject**. A single unanswered first-order objection
- When to trigger
- How JPE referees read
- The objection taxonomy (pre-empt each in the text)
- Pre-mortem procedure
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jpe-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when running a pre-submission pre-mortem on a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) manuscript to anticipate the price-theory, general-equilibrium, and identification objections a Chicago referee will raise. Builds the threat list and pre-empts it; it does not write the R&R response (see jpe-rebuttal).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpe-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.