From ectj-skills
Helps route econometrics manuscripts to the correct journal by comparing fit against EctJ's leading-case, applied-value bar versus alternatives like Journal of Econometrics or Econometric Theory.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/ectj-skills:ectj-topic-selectionThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Use this before drafting. EctJ is not a generic repository for any econometric technique; it
Use this before drafting. EctJ is not a generic repository for any econometric technique; it asks for original econometrics with direct or potential applied value and a leading-case contribution.
If the application can be removed without changing the paper's value, EctJ fit is weak. If the theorem can be removed without changing the paper's value, EctJ fit is also weak.
Calibration anchors, hedged where practice varies: the modal accepted structure is a compact chain — motivation through an econometric failure, the leading-case theory, a Monte Carlo section summarized within about a page of main text, and an empirical illustration that changes a real decision — inside the roughly 20-page printed format, with full grids and secondary material in the online appendix where the rules permit. Papers that allocate half their pages to a literature survey or to institutional background do not match the venue's shape even when technically strong. For early-career authors, the Royal Economic Society's Denis Sargan Econometric Prize, awarded for the best EctJ article by a young author, is one more signal that the venue wants sharp leading-case work rather than encyclopedic treatments.
Vignette (illustrative): a paper derives an estimator for staggered-adoption designs when untreated potential outcomes follow an unobserved factor structure.
Three positives and one repairable negative reads as possible EctJ with compression to fix first, not as a venue switch.
[Fit] strong EctJ / possible EctJ / better elsewhere
[Leading case] <methodological or applied-econometrics advance>
[Applied value] <empirical domain and why it matters>
[Routing risk] <too narrow, too theoretical, too empirical, too long>
[Next action] <theory, application, framing, or venue switch>
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