From jar-skills
Positions a JAR manuscript within the accounting literature by naming the specific conversation, stating the marginal contribution over prior work, and justifying the venue.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jar-skills:jar-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The intro reads as gap-spotting ("no one has studied X")
JAR referees are accounting economists who know the capital-markets, disclosure, audit, tax, and standard-setting literatures intimately. A strong front end names the specific conversation — e.g., the value-relevance/earnings-informativeness stream descending from Ball-Brown, the voluntary-disclosure literature, the cost-of-capital/information-environment literature, the audit-quality literature, the recognition-vs.-disclosure debate — and states precisely what is open in it. "Gap because unstudied" is not enough; the open question must matter economically.
If your contribution is purely methodological with no accounting question, reconsider the venue.
【Conversation joined】literature stream + what is open
【Closest prior work】2-3 papers; what each left unresolved
【Marginal contribution】new setting / identification / measure / adjudication
【Why it advances accounting knowledge】[...]
【Venue fit】JAR vs. JAE/TAR/RAST/CAR
【Next step】jar-methods or jar-contribution-framing
../../resources/official-source-map.md — official JAR/Chicago Booth/Wiley URLs (accessed 2026-06-01)../../resources/external_tools.md — empirical-accounting data sources and toolingnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jar-skillsHelps assess fit and framing for Journal of Accounting Research (JAR), covering method bar, house style, and desk-reject risks. Useful when targeting JAR or top-tier accounting journals.
Positions a CAR manuscript within the accounting literature by identifying the conversation it joins, distinguishing it from related work, and disclosing overlap with the authors' own papers.
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