restud-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript against the closest related work — confronting the nearest papers and stating the marginal contribution precisely. Sharpens positioning; does not write the full introduction or run empirics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-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.
# REStud Literature Positioning (restud-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The related-work discussion is a list of citations rather than an argument - The user cannot name the single closest paper and what theirs adds - A referee or seminar comment was "how is this different from [X]?" - The contribution is original (per `restud-topic-selection`) but its *location* in the literature is unclear ## What REStud positioning must do REStud is general-interest and weights theory and applied work equally, so the positioning has two jobs at once: 1. **Confront the closest papers honestly.** Name the 3–5 nearest results and state precisely what each one already established and what it could not. 2. **Make the marginal contribution legible to a non-specialist on either side.** Because the handling editor and referees may sit on the theory *or* the applied side (the Joint Managing Editors span IO/applied econometrics, micro theory, and information economics), an applied paper should be legible to a theorist and a theory paper to an applied reader. Models that defined whole literatures appeared here first — Mirrlees (1971) on optimal taxation, Stiglitz (1974) on sharecropping incent
- When to trigger
- What REStud positioning must do
- Building the positioning
- Step 1 — The nearest-neighbor map
- Step 2 — The "why now / why not before" clause
- Step 3 — Confront, do not bury
- Step 4 — Canonical anchors
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the restud-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript against the closest related work — confronting the nearest papers and stating the marginal contribution precisely. Sharpens positioning; does not write the full introduction or run empirics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-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.