jebo-workflow

JEBO Workflow Router (jebo-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which jebo- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) — Elsevier's broad outlet for behavioral, experimental, and organizational economics: bounded rationality, social preferences, lab and field experiments, behavioral game theory, organizational behavior and institutions, evolutionary/adaptive economics, and economic psychology. JEBO is deliberately methodologically pluralist — it publishes theory, experiments, observational empirics, and agent-based simulation side by side — so the binding constraint depends heavily on which of those four you are writing.

Operational tells that you are at JEBO and not a sibling: the paper leads with a behavioral mechanism (a deviation from frictionless rational-actor benchmarks), not with a clean causal-policy number for its own sake (that is AEJ: Applied / J. Public Econ) and not with a theorem about equilibrium existence (that is GEB). Process facts, verified 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准: Elsevier, hosted on ScienceDirect, ISSN 0167-2681, founded 1980, monthly; submission via Elsevier Editorial Manager; single-anonymized review (referees anonymous, authors named); abstract ≤250 words, 1–7 keywords, JEL codes; author-date (Elsevier Harvard) references; data sharing encouraged via the Research Data policy / Mendeley Data, not a hard pre-acceptance gate. Editor-in-Chief: Daniela Puzzello (待核实 — re-confirm on the masthead).

When to trigger

• The user asks "what should I do next?" on a JEBO-bound paper
• A draft's current bottleneck needs diagnosing
• Work is ping-ponging between design, mechanism, exhibits, and the response letter
• A JEBO decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode

Routing table

Current symptom	Next skill
Is this behavioral enough for JEBO, or is it ExpEcon / GEB / J. Public Econ?	jebo-topic-selection
Contribution vs. the behavioral/experimental frontier is fuzzy	jebo-literature-positioning
Experimental design, treatment, or observational causal design is shaky	jebo-identification
The behavioral model / mechanism is loose or decorative	jebo-theory-model
Results may be specification-, demand-effect-, or inference-sensitive	jebo-robustness
Treatment-comparison exhibits are dense or hard to read	jebo-tables-figures
Prose buries the mechanism; abstract/intro do not land	jebo-writing-style
z-Tree/oTree code, instructions, and data deposit need packaging	jebo-replication-package
Want to anticipate referee objections before submitting	jebo-referee-strategy
Ready to submit via Editorial Manager; need a preflight	jebo-submission
Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy	jebo-rebuttal

Default order

1. jebo-topic-selection — confirm the behavioral question fits JEBO, not a sibling
2. jebo-literature-positioning — stake the contribution vs. the behavioral frontier
3. jebo-identification — experimental design or observational causal credibility
4. jebo-theory-model — the behavioral model/mechanism that organizes the evidence
5. jebo-robustness — demand effects, MHT, specification, inference
6. jebo-tables-figures — treatment-comparison exhibits
7. jebo-writing-style — make the mechanism land (abstract + intro last)
8. jebo-replication-package — instructions + experiment code + data deposit
9. jebo-referee-strategy — anticipate the modal JEBO referee
10. jebo-submission — Editorial Manager preflight
11. jebo-rebuttal — after the R&R

jebo-writing-style is late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before design and mechanism settle.

Routing by paper archetype

JEBO spans four method families and the first bottleneck differs by family. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

Archetype	Likely first bottleneck	Enter at
Lab/field experiment (own data)	incentive compatibility, no-deception norm, pre-registration, comprehension checks	jebo-identification
Behavioral observational empirics	causal design (DID/IV/RD) + mapping estimate to a behavioral mechanism	jebo-identification → jebo-theory-model
Behavioral / bounded-rationality theory	a sharp testable prediction, not just a richer model	jebo-theory-model
Agent-based / evolutionary simulation	calibration discipline, parameter sweeps, reproducibility	jebo-theory-model → jebo-robustness

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "My lab experiment on overconfidence and team formation works, but a referee says the result could be a demand effect and the link to the behavioral model is hand-wavy." Two distinct JEBO pushbacks: experimenter demand not ruled out (owned by jebo-robustness, with the design defense in jebo-identification) and mechanism not pinned to the model (owned by jebo-theory-model). Route to jebo-identification to firm the design, jebo-theory-model to make the prediction sharp, then jebo-robustness for the demand-effect controls before returning to exhibits and the rebuttal.

Anti-patterns

• Treating JEBO as interchangeable with Experimental Economics (ESA, method-focused) — JEBO wants the behavioral economics, not a pure design contribution
• Treating it as Games and Economic Behavior (formal game theory) or J. of Economic Psychology (psychology-first)
• Polishing prose before design, mechanism, and the evidence hierarchy are stable
• Letting the appendix carry a behavioral claim the main text must establish
• Quoting volatile process facts (editor, fees, limits) as permanent — mark them 待核实

Output format

【Target】Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
【Archetype】experiment / observational / theory / simulation
【Current bottleneck】fit / contribution / design / mechanism / robustness / exhibits / style / package / submission / revision
【Next skill】<one jebo-* skill>
【Reason】why this is the binding constraint at JEBO
【Source check】official facts verified or marked 待核实