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Frames manuscript contribution for Journal of International Economics to meet originality gate. Useful when results exist but need crisp 'what's new' for trade or macro audience.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/jie-skills:jie-contribution-framingThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The results exist but the "so what / what's new" is not crisp
JIE accepts both empirical and theoretical work, but it must be original in its motivation or modelling structure. This is the exact bar to frame against — not "important" or "policy-relevant" in the abstract, but new in motivation or new in modelling. Choose the axis your paper actually delivers on:
JIE's readership is split between trade and international macro/finance. State which half you are addressing and pitch the contribution in that half's currency (a trade elasticity / welfare gain, or a pass-through / cyclicality / default moment). A contribution invisible to your half's referees will read as incremental even if it is not.
Write a single paragraph that names: (1) the international-economics question, (2) the originality axis (motivation or modelling), (3) the concrete novelty (data/fact or mechanism), (4) the headline quantitative result, and (5) why it matters for the field. This paragraph should survive almost verbatim into the introduction and align with the ≤150-word abstract.
A firm-level tariff-war paper. Weak framing: "this is an important and timely study of trade policy." JIE-grade framing names the axis and the currency: "The field measured the tariff war at the aggregate level; with firm-level customs records (motivation originality) we show the export contraction is concentrated in [margin], implying a trade elasticity of about [X] — illustrative — that revises the welfare cost downward." It declares the trade half, leads with a magnitude, and claims originality on one axis (motivation), not both. The same result framed for the macro-finance half — pass-through or current-account currency — would read as incremental to a trade referee, so frame for the half that will referee it.
Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the cross-border margin, model or identification source, and replication/data readiness; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: international-economics reviewers who separate trade, open-economy macro, international finance, and sovereign-risk audiences.
claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows, so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue.resources/official-source-map.md has been checked for volatile rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.【Question】(one line, international-economics)
【Originality axis】motivation / modelling structure
【Concrete novelty】new data-fact / new mechanism
【Headline result】(quantitative)
【Field half】trade / macro-finance + why it matters there
【One-paragraph statement】(drafted, intro-ready)
【Next step】jie-tables-figures or jie-writing-style
../../resources/external_tools.md — data and model toolkits that often constitute the novelty../../resources/official-source-map.md — scope and originality-gate sourcesnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jie-skillsPositions a JIE manuscript against the international-trade or open-economy-macro frontier, staking the contribution against relevant literatures without drafting the paper.
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