Skill UI

This comprehensive guide details the entire editorial review process for quantitative economics publications, covering stages from initial desk screening through to pre-acceptance reproducibility checks. It provides critical insights into expected timelines (4-5 months), desk-reject risks, the Econometrica transfer option, and mandatory data/code preparation requirements. It is designed to set clear professional expectations for authors throughout the academic publishing cycle.

A structured guide for authors responding to major revisions or reject-and-resubmit decisions from high-stakes academic journals like QJE. This process outlines a rigorous protocol for triaging reviewer comments, prioritizing editor mandates, structuring the point-by-point response letter, and ensuring the manuscript is fully updated before submission. It focuses on maintaining a professional, gracious, and evidence-based tone.

A comprehensive war-gaming guide designed for authors preparing manuscripts for top-tier journals, such as QJE. It teaches how to anticipate hostile referee objections across different academic archetypes (e.g., identification hawks, 'so what?' skeptics) and proactively address them—both fundamentally and for robustness—before submission. This process stress-tests the paper's core claims, structure, and arguments, significantly boosting the chances of passing the initial desk-screen.

This guide provides detailed best practices for presenting empirical results, specifically tailored for top-tier economics journals like the QJE. It emphasizes shifting from 'table-heavy' to 'figure-forward' visualization, covering techniques for event-study plots, RDD discontinuity plots, and ensuring all exhibits are self-contained, readable, and follow strict academic formatting standards.

This skill polishes scholarly prose, abstracts, and introductions to align with the narrative-driven, ambitious style of the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE). It focuses on making the core research contribution immediately legible to a general-interest, non-specialist reader, ensuring the big idea lands fast, even in long-form empirical papers. The skill guides users on structuring the 'introduction arc,' stating findings with concrete numbers, and minimizing technical jargon.

This skill provides a comprehensive framework for assessing whether an economics manuscript is suitable for the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE). It guides authors through evaluating the research scope (must be general-interest), evidence quality (requires clean natural experiments or quasi-experimental designs), narrative structure (leading with consequential findings), and adherence to rigorous academic submission standards.

A comprehensive guide for drafting persuasive and structured author responses to major academic conference reviews. This methodology teaches how to triage critical concerns, anchor answers strictly to submitted evidence (tables, appendices, repository), and effectively counter common technical pushbacks such as baseline tuning, temporal data leakage, and offline-online gaps, ensuring the response is professional, anonymous, and high-impact.

This guide outlines the comprehensive steps required to convert an accepted, anonymous academic paper into its final, published 'camera-ready' version for major conferences (e.g., RecSys). It covers crucial tasks such as restoring author details, affiliations, funding, integrating rebuttal promises, ensuring proper ACM two-column reflow, and managing public code/data repository release.

A comprehensive guide for structuring point-by-point responses to reviewers after a major academic review (RED). It emphasizes prioritizing model critiques, quantitative evidence, calibration discipline, and maintaining code/data archive updates. This skill ensures your rebuttal is structured, rigorous, and directly addresses the core concerns of quantitative reviewers.

This guide helps researchers test whether their economic research question aligns with the specialized scope of top-tier journals, particularly those focusing on dynamic and quantitative mechanisms (like RED). It provides a structured methodology, including fit tests and scoring dimensions (Dynamics, Model, Discipline, Audience), to ensure the core contribution is genuinely dynamic and methodologically rigorous.

Comprehensive stylistic guidelines for submitting quantitative dynamic economic papers to the Review of Economic Dynamics (RED). This guide covers critical conventions, including structuring the abstract to lead with quantitative results, mastering Harvard referencing, adhering to LaTeX formatting, and emphasizing dynamic mechanisms for top-tier academic submission.

A comprehensive academic skill designed to guide authors targeting top-tier Chinese policy journals, such as 'Reform.' It helps assess whether a manuscript's core contribution, methodology, and research focus align with the journal's scope (e.g., economic reform, public policy, institutional change). The tool covers academic standards, common pitfalls, necessary structural adjustments, and adherence to specific citation styles (GB/T 7714).