From jfe-skills
Anticipates and pre-empts objections JFE referees will raise—endogeneity, fragile inference, multiple testing, alternative explanations. Builds a defense plan before submission or during review.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jfe-skills:jfe-referee-strategyThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- Before submission, to find the objections a referee will raise first
JFE referees are methodologically demanding experts who expect every plausible alternative explanation to be ruled out and every result to survive thorough robustness. They read the Internet Appendix (appended to the main file). They are quicker to reject for an undefended identification or a fragile result than for a modest contribution. The winning strategy is to referee your own paper first and answer the hard questions in the text.
Two JFE process facts matter for strategy: (1) the journal aims at fast turnaround and refunds the whole US$850 fee if a decision takes more than 120 days, which keeps editors moving — so a clean, referee-yourself-first submission is rewarded; (2) refereeing for JFE earns submission rights that discount your own future fees, which is why the referee pool is engaged and exacting. Your handling editor is a subfield specialist under Editor-in-Chief Toni M. Whited's small co-editor team; the editor's signal, not the loudest referee, decides the paper.
【Top-3 anticipated objections】[...]
【Pre-empted in text/IA】[...] | 【Still exposed】[...]
【Editor's emphasis】(if reports received)
【Comment triage】substantive[...] clarify[...] disagree[...]
【New tests location】main / IA
【Next】jfe-rebuttal (to draft the response)
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jfe-skillsAnticipates and pre-empts objections from Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) referees before submission — demand effects, mechanism-vs-alternative, external validity, sibling-journal fit. Helps triage fatal vs. addressable issues.
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