jeea-workflow

JEEA Workflow Router (jeea-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which jeea- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) — the general-interest journal of the European Economic Association (EEA), published by Oxford University Press (OUP). JEEA publishes high-quality economics across all fields — micro and macro theory, applied econometrics, applied micro, finance, development, public — and judges every paper at a general-interest theory-and-empirics bar, not a field-specialist one. A JEEA paper can be a clean empirical design or a disciplined theory/structural contribution; both must matter to a broad economics readership.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as JEEA. Operational tells that you are at JEEA and not a sibling (The Economic Journal, the European Economic Review) or a top-5: EEA membership is required for the submitting author to submit and resubmit; there is a submission fee (€100, effective Feb 1, 2026; waived if the submitting author and all coauthors are based in low- and middle-income countries); review is single-blind, managed by a co-editor with a fast-decision target (≈8 weeks where possible); and the JEEA Data Editor runs a mandatory replication check before formal acceptance under the DCAS standard (endorsed since Feb 1, 2024), with replication packages posted to the JEEA Zenodo community. Source-map process facts were refreshed on 2026-06-20; live-check volatile specifics on the official EEA / OUP pages before a real upload.

When to trigger

• The user asks "what should I do next?"
• A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
• Work is ping-ponging between identification/theory, framing, writing, and the response letter
• A JEEA decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode

Routing table

Current symptom	Next skill
Question feels narrow / field-specialist, not clearly general-interest	jeea-topic-selection
Contribution vs. the frontier is fuzzy or undersold	jeea-literature-positioning
Empirical causal design or theory/structural identification is shaky	jeea-identification
A theory model needs sharper assumptions, results, or discipline	jeea-theory-model
Results may not survive specification / sample / inference perturbations	jeea-robustness
Exhibits are dense; significance asterisks still present	jeea-tables-figures
Prose buries the idea; abstract/intro do not land	jeea-writing-style
Data/code deposit, README, or JEEA Data Editor prep	jeea-replication-package
Want to anticipate referee objections / desk-reject odds / timeline	jeea-referee-strategy
Ready to submit via the EEA member-area flow; need a preflight	jeea-submission
Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy	jeea-rebuttal

Default order

1. jeea-topic-selection — lock the general-interest question and confirm JEEA fit
2. jeea-literature-positioning — stake the contribution vs. the frontier
3. jeea-identification — credible empirical design or theory/structural identification
4. jeea-theory-model — make any model disciplined and its results legible
5. jeea-robustness — show the headline result is not fragile
6. jeea-tables-figures — exhibits without significance asterisks
7. jeea-writing-style — make the idea land (abstract + intro last)
8. jeea-replication-package — assemble the DCAS package for the JEEA Data Editor
9. jeea-referee-strategy — pre-empt objections; calibrate expectations
10. jeea-submission — EEA member-area submission preflight
11. jeea-rebuttal — after the R&R

jeea-writing-style is a late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before identification/theory/robustness settle.

Anti-patterns

• Skipping jeea-replication-package until acceptance — the JEEA Data Editor checks before formal acceptance, and empirical papers cannot be accepted until replication is verified
• Letting jeea-tables-figures polish exhibits while estimation or the model is still moving
• Treating JEEA like a field journal (selling depth in one subfield) instead of a general-interest outlet (selling a lesson that travels)

Routing by paper archetype

JEEA spans theory and empirics, and the bottleneck differs by archetype. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

Archetype	Likely first bottleneck	Enter at
applied micro / development causal design	staggered-DID or weak-IV credibility	jeea-identification
micro / macro theory	assumptions, generality, and a sharp result	jeea-theory-model → jeea-identification (Branch C)
structural / quantitative	parameter identification + counterfactual validity	jeea-identification (Branch A) → jeea-robustness
finance / asset pricing	identification + factor-zoo / inference discipline	jeea-identification → jeea-robustness

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "My theory paper has a clean model, but a referee says the main proposition needs a more general environment and the empirical illustration uses naive TWFE." That is two distinct JEEA pushbacks — the model is not as general as the claim (owned by jeea-theory-model) and the empirical design is biased under staggered timing (owned by jeea-identification Branch B). Route to jeea-theory-model first to generalize the proposition, then to jeea-identification to re-estimate with a heterogeneity-robust estimator; only once both settle (say the headline elasticity stabilizes at 0.18, s.e. 0.04, illustrative) do you return to jeea-tables-figures and jeea-rebuttal.

Minimal decision snippet

if decision_letter_arrived:        -> jeea-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit:              -> jeea-submission
elif exhibits_or_significance:     -> jeea-tables-figures
elif results_look_fragile:         -> jeea-robustness
elif model_not_disciplined:        -> jeea-theory-model
elif identification_shaky:         -> jeea-identification
elif claim_or_positioning_fuzzy:   -> jeea-literature-positioning
else:                              -> jeea-topic-selection