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Guides empirical analysis for JIE manuscripts: bilateral trade panels, PPML gravity estimation, open-economy panels, local projections, structural model calibration, and robustness checks.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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- Assembling a bilateral trade panel or a cross-country macro/finance panel
JIE referees come from international trade or international macro/finance and apply that field's conventions. Match them.
ppmlhdfe, fixest::fepois) with importer×time, exporter×time, and pair fixed effects; report the trade elasticity.xtabond2/xtdpdgmm where lagged dependent variables matter); cluster appropriately.lpirf) for pass-through and impulse responses; VAR/BVAR where warranted.The objections an international-economics referee raises most, with the move that resolves each. Each maps to a concrete change in the empirical section.
ppmlhdfe/fepois), importer×time and exporter×time fixed effects, pair fixed effects for policy effects; keep zeros; report the elasticity, not just significance.A gravity panel of bilateral manufacturing trade, 60 countries × 20 years, asking whether an RTA raises members' trade. Log-OLS on positive flows returns an RTA coefficient of, say, 0.55 (about a 73% increase). Re-estimating in PPML with importer×time, exporter×time, and pair fixed effects — retaining the ~30% of dyad-years with zero trade — the coefficient falls to roughly 0.20 (about 22%). That drop is the textbook Santos Silva–Tenreyro pattern: log-OLS over-weighted small positive flows and discarded informative zeros. Multi-way clustering on exporter and importer widens the standard error enough that the honest takeaway is "a modest, precisely-bounded RTA effect," not the inflated log-OLS number. (Figures illustrative, chosen to show the mechanism.)
【Data】sources + unit (dyad-year / country-year / firm-year)
【Estimator】PPML+FE / dynamic panel / local projection / structural
【Inference】multi-way / design-based / cluster-robust
【Magnitudes】[elasticity / welfare / pass-through reported]
【Robustness done】[FE structures, elasticity sensitivity, modern DID, ...]
【Robustness missing】[...]
【Next step】jie-contribution-framing or jie-tables-figures
../../resources/external_tools.md — Comtrade/BACI/CEPII/WITS, IMF/BIS/EWN/PWT data + ppmlhdfe/fepois/Dynare toolkits../../resources/official-source-map.md — scope and data-policy sourcesnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jie-skillsStress-tests identification strategies for JIE manuscripts: gravity/PPML, trade-policy shocks, shift-share/Bartik, exchange-rate pass-through, or structural open-economy models.
Validates empirical growth models, calibrations, and spatial inference for Journal of Economic Growth manuscripts. Runs checklists for convergence regressions, panel FE, IV, DID/RDD, synthetic controls, and structural estimates.
Guides empirical macro analysis for JME manuscripts: VAR/SVAR, local projections, DSGE estimation, IRFs, FEVDs, and robustness checks.