Skill UI

This skill provides a rigorous framework for constructing high-quality microeconomic theory papers, adhering to the standards of top academic journals like AEJ: Micro. It guides users through defining minimal, motivated model primitives (players, actions, payoffs), selecting and justifying the correct equilibrium concept (e.g., Nash, SPBE), and choosing a robust proof architecture (e.g., duality, fixed-point). It ensures the resulting theorems are general, illuminating, and deeply motivated by economic principles.

This guide assists researchers in structuring and rigorously developing the economic model or mechanism for academic papers. It provides best practices for moving beyond mere empirical findings, ensuring that every result is tied to a clear, testable economic theory, whether through minimal-model discipline or full general equilibrium analysis. Essential for submissions to top-tier economics journals.

A rigorous self-assessment tool for academic manuscripts in game theory and economic behavior. It guides the identification of core assumptions, tests the logical architecture of proofs, and verifies the generalizability of results. It covers both theoretical proofs (e.g., equilibrium, mechanism design) and experimental designs, ensuring the argument withstands specialist scrutiny.

This guide structures the entire process of responding to a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) decision letter (R&R or reject). It provides a detailed, point-by-point framework for drafting the response letter, organizing revisions, and strategically addressing tough academic demands like strengthening mechanisms, general equilibrium, and identification.

A comprehensive pre-mortem guide designed for authors submitting to highly selective academic journals, such as JPE. It teaches how to anticipate and proactively address critical methodological objections—including General Equilibrium failures, endogeneity concerns, and lack of clear economic mechanisms—thereby significantly hardening the manuscript before formal review.

This tool is used when an economic research paper requires explicit theoretical modeling or a clear causal mechanism to explain empirical results. It focuses on building and disciplining the underlying economic argument, ensuring that empirical findings are connected to fundamental economic forces, general equilibrium, and rigorous theoretical predictions. It helps transform descriptive findings into testable, theoretically sound research.

This guide helps researchers refine their academic work to meet the rigorous standards of top economics journals like JPE. It teaches users to move beyond simple correlation by structuring their research around clear economic mechanisms, linking evidence to established theory, ensuring generality, and properly considering equilibrium effects. Use this when developing a paper pitch or deciding the overall scope of a manuscript.

A comprehensive guide for developing rigorous spatial economic models, designed for manuscripts needing deep theoretical interpretation (e.g., JUE submissions). It instructs users on how to build quantitative spatial models (QSMs), sorting models, and spatial-equilibrium frameworks to interpret reduced-form estimates, establish counterfactual policies, and ensure that theory rigorously disciplines the empirical findings. Focus areas include general-equilibrium reallocation, policy invariance, and identifying parameters.

This guide helps researchers elevate vague global trends into rigorous, open-economy causal questions suitable for high-impact journals. It teaches methodology for identifying clear treatments, measuring international exposure (e.g., GVC, trade dependency), and defining precise counterfactuals within a general equilibrium framework.

A rigorous checklist and guide for conducting causal inference in development economics, specifically tailored to the high standards of top-tier journals like The World Bank Economic Review (WBER). It covers advanced econometric designs (RCT, DiD, RD, IV), focusing not just on estimation but on defining the estimand, addressing external validity, general equilibrium effects, and translating local findings into actionable policy recommendations.