From jie-skills
Positions a JIE manuscript against the international-trade or open-economy-macro frontier, staking the contribution against relevant literatures without drafting the paper.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jie-skills:jie-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The contribution is not yet stated sharply against the existing international-economics literature
JIE is a field journal, so positioning happens within international economics, against the right sub-literature — not against all of economics. Pin the paper to its frontier and state, in one or two sentences, what you add. Choose the comparison set deliberately:
State the contribution as a delta: "Relative to [frontier paper(s)], we [new data / new mechanism / new identification], which changes [quantitative or qualitative conclusion]." Cite the editors' and the field's anchor papers where genuinely relevant — but do not pad.
A firm-level tariff-war paper positions on the trade side. The closest frontier is the China-shock / shift-share exposure literature and the structural-gravity tradition. A weak positioning says "we contribute to the trade-policy literature." A JIE-grade delta names the closest two or three papers and states the gap precisely: "Relative to aggregate-exposure studies of the tariff war, we use firm-level customs records to show the export response is concentrated in [a margin those papers cannot see], which revises the implied trade elasticity downward." That sentence is legible to a trade referee, defends a real gap rather than a genre, and ties the novelty to the originality axis (new data / new fact). Check that no recent JIE or AER paper already closed it before staking the claim.
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.【Scope half】trade / macro-finance
【Frontier (closest 2-3)】[paper → what it did]
【Your delta】new data / new mechanism / new identification → changed conclusion
【Originality framing】motivation or modelling structure
【Gap defended against】[recent papers that might pre-empt you]
【Next step】jie-identification-strategy
../../resources/external_tools.md — data and tools that often define a contribution's novelty../../resources/official-source-map.md — editor roster (to identify frontier anchors)npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jie-skillsPositions a JEEA manuscript's contribution relative to the frontier when claims are fuzzy, oversold, or undersold. Stakes marginal contribution for a general-interest readership.
Positions an IER manuscript's contribution against the frontier and sibling journals (Econometrica/QE, top-5, field journals). Sharpens the gap and delta.
Stakes a JIMF manuscript's contribution against the international-finance frontier by differentiating from the closest papers in recognizable research programs.