restud-theory-model
Use when building, sharpening, or stress-testing the theoretical model in a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript — whether a pure-theory paper or an empirical paper with a model — and when routing proofs to the online appendix. Develops the model and its economic payoff; does not run the empirics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-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.
# REStud Theory / Model (restud-theory-model) ## When to trigger - The paper is pure theory and needs the contribution framed as a clean result - An empirical paper has a model whose assumptions and proofs are underdeveloped - A proposition is stated but the proof lives inline and clutters the main text - A referee will ask "what is the economic content of this result, beyond the algebra?" ## What REStud rewards in theory REStud has unusually deep theory roots for a top-5 journal — it is where **optimal income-taxation theory** (Mirrlees, "An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation," REStud 38(2), 1971) and the **Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans** growth model (Cass, "Optimum Growth in an Aggregative Model of Capital Accumulation," REStud 32(3), 1965) were first published. It accepts theory across all fields and treats a **new model** as a first-class contribution — and with Joint Managing Editors who are themselves theorists (Antonio Penta in mechanism design, Jakub Steiner in information/behavioral economics), pure theory is a first-class citizen here, not a tolerated minority. The bar is **technical excellence with a legible economic payoff**: - **Tractability with insight.** T
- When to trigger
- What REStud rewards in theory
- Building the model section
- Step 1 — Result-first framing
- Step 2 — Minimal setup
- Step 3 — Propositions and their economics
- Step 4 — Proofs to the online appendix
- Step 5 — Map to empirics (if applicable)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the restud-theory-model skill do?
Use when building, sharpening, or stress-testing the theoretical model in a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript — whether a pure-theory paper or an empirical paper with a model — and when routing proofs to the online appendix. Develops the model and its economic payoff; does not run the empirics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-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.