jme-replication-and-data-policy

Replication & Data Policy (jme-replication-and-data-policy)

When to trigger

• The paper is empirical/quantitative and you must prepare a deposit
• An editor has asked for supplemental materials as a condition of publication
• You want to pre-empt referee replication concerns
• You need to know exactly what JME's data policy does and does not require

What JME's policy actually is

JME maintains a supplementary-materials / replication policy rather than a one-size mandatory verification gate. Precisely:

• An editor may require provision of supplemental materials — proofs, data sets, and computational programs — as a condition of publication.
• Authors are strongly advised to deposit appendices, computer programs, and data files on ScienceDirect (and Mendeley Data is supported) to enhance replication of and citation to the research.
• Authors must include the declaration of any use of generative AI in manuscript preparation, per Elsevier policy.

Note what is 待核实: a separately enforced, AEA/Econometrica-style mandatory pre-publication data-and-code-availability verification workflow could not be confirmed from an official JME page. The confirmed expectation is a strong deposit recommendation plus editor discretion to require materials. Treat any claim of a formal verified-reproducibility check as unverified, and build the package as if it will be required — because the editor can require it.

What to deposit

• Data: raw and constructed data sets (or, for proprietary/licensed series, the construction code plus access instructions).
• Code: estimation and model code — Dynare .mod files, MATLAB/Julia DSGE solvers, Stata/R scripts for VAR/LP — with recorded software and package versions.
• A master script (run_all) that regenerates every table, figure, and IRF from raw inputs.
• Appendices: the online supplementary appendix (exempt from the 40-page cap) and a README documenting steps, seeds, and runtime.

Checklist

• Data and/or construction code deposited (proprietary series handled with access notes)
• Estimation/model code included (Dynare/MATLAB/Julia/Stata/R) with versions pinned
• run_all master script reproduces all exhibits, including IRFs and FEVDs
• Seeds for MCMC / bootstrap / simulation set and reported
• README documents inputs, steps, runtime, and software versions
• Materials staged for ScienceDirect / Mendeley Data deposit
• Generative-AI declaration included per Elsevier policy

Anti-patterns

• Assuming no deposit is needed because there is no AEA-style mandatory verifier (the editor can still require it)
• Submitting final-revised data only, with no code to reconstruct real-time series
• A Dynare/MATLAB package that does not run end-to-end on a clean machine
• Omitting the generative-AI declaration

Reproducibility pass for Journal of Monetary Economics

Use this as a second-pass capability check. First lock the main macro object, the identifying variation, and the policy-relevant counterfactual; then test whether the manuscript addresses macro and monetary economists who expect the shock, mechanism, and policy margin to be visible early.

• Primary move: Name data, code, environment, disclosure limits, and archive/deposit route; unresolved proprietary or ethics barriers must be explicit.
• Decision ledger: return claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly.
• Neighbor test: compare against JIE for open-economy trade/finance emphasis, RED for dynamic macro theory, AEJ Macro for broader field positioning; if the neighboring outlet has the stronger audience claim, recommend re-routing before polishing.
• Verification floor: before submission-ready advice, re-open resources/official-source-map.md for volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.

Output format

【Deposit target】ScienceDirect / Mendeley Data
【Data】raw + constructed (or access notes for proprietary)? Y/N
【Code】Dynare/MATLAB/Julia/Stata/R, versions pinned? Y/N
【run_all】regenerates all exhibits incl. IRFs/FEVDs? Y/N
【Seeds + README】present? Y/N
【AI declaration】present? Y/N
【Next step】jme-review-process