rje-literature-positioning
Use to position a manuscript against the industrial-organization frontier for The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — staking the contribution against prior IO work without a standalone survey, and citing in the RJE author-date style (no page numbers, no issue numbers). Positioning, not a literature review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rje-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.
# Literature Positioning (rje-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The related-work section reads like a survey instead of a positioning argument - You are unsure which IO literatures your article must engage - You need citations to conform to the RJE Style Guide ## Positioning at the IO flagship RJE is the **flagship industrial-organization journal** (formerly the Bell Journal of Economics), so referees are IO insiders who know the canon and the current frontier. Positioning must show **exactly what your article adds to the IO conversation** — a new structural method, new estimates for a market, a new mechanism, or a theoretical result — not summarize the field. Engage the **specific strand** your contribution touches: - **Demand & differentiation:** discrete-choice / random-coefficients (BLP-style) demand and its descendants. - **Supply, conduct & market power:** oligopoly pricing, conduct testing, pass-through, markups. - **Entry, exit & dynamics:** static and dynamic entry/investment games. - **Regulation & antitrust:** merger analysis, regulated-industry studies, market design. - **Organizations & contracts:** vertical relationships, incentives, firm boundaries. - **Au
- When to trigger
- Positioning at the IO flagship
- Citation form (RJE Style Guide)
- Strand-targeting grid (find the conversation your article must enter)
- Worked vignette: positioning a platform-pricing article
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the rje-literature-positioning skill do?
Use to position a manuscript against the industrial-organization frontier for The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — staking the contribution against prior IO work without a standalone survey, and citing in the RJE author-date style (no page numbers, no issue numbers). Positioning, not a literature review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rje-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.