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This tool guides researchers in evaluating whether their economic project topic is suitably specialized and ambitious for elite, growth-focused academic journals. It helps users frame their research question around core growth mechanisms, such as human capital accumulation, endogenous growth theory, or institutional dynamics, ensuring the work meets the standard of a "first-order growth question."

A comprehensive guide for calibrating the balance between coverage and emphasis when conducting literature surveys (JEL surveys). It provides guidelines for structuring the corpus by tiers, ensuring fair representation of all academic schools and controversies, and avoiding self-promotion bias.

This tool provides a comprehensive pre-submission checklist designed for authors submitting survey papers (either a proposal or a full draft) to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) via the AEA portal. It ensures compliance by verifying JEL codes, disclosure statements, data availability, and adherence to style guides, helping authors finalize their submission package.

This tool helps refine academic survey articles to adopt the authoritative and accessible "JEL voice." It focuses on improving prose structure, ensuring the narrative flows for non-specialist economists, and structuring the introduction and abstract according to academic conventions. It transforms summary writing into synthesis dialogue, making complex topics engaging for a broad audience.

This guide provides a comprehensive framework for transforming a conventional literature survey into a compelling, argumentative essay suitable for broad academic audiences (e.g., JEP). It outlines the essential narrative arc: establishing a hook (puzzle), defining central tension, synthesizing ideas logically, and articulating clear, memorable takeaways.

This strategy guides the rigorous writing of theoretical economics papers, emulating the standards of a Journal of Economic Theory (JET). It ensures that all assumptions are explicit and load-bearing, results are cleanly stated theorems, and proofs have a visible, expert-verifiable architecture. Use this when submitting a high-level theoretical paper where credibility relies on minimizing assumptions and maximizing procedural transparency for expert review.

A comprehensive guide for authors responding to revise-and-resubmit (R&R) decisions from highly selective journals. It teaches a rigorous strategy for addressing referee concerns regarding proof gaps, assumptions, generality, and exposition, ensuring the response is structured, evidence-based, and highly professional.

Provides comprehensive guidelines for authors submitting to the Journal of Economic Theory (JET). It details mandatory data sharing (Elsevier Option C), ensuring computational reproducibility for numerical examples, and proper declaration of generative AI usage. This playbook helps authors structure their submissions to meet high academic standards of verifiable evidence and transparency.

This guide provides a deep analysis of the rigorous, multi-stage evaluation process for top-tier economic theory journals, specifically detailing the Journal of Economic Theory (JET) standards. It covers the desk-screening phase, single-blind refereeing requirements (minimum two reviewers), and editor decision-making. Use this to structure your proofs, maximize theoretical contribution, and preemptively address common academic objections.

A comprehensive guide for creating rigorous, schematic exhibits (figures and tables) for highly theoretical journals, such as the Journal of Economic Theory (JET). Focuses on best practices for visualizing concepts like best-response diagrams, phase spaces, lattices, and information flows using vector graphics (TikZ/PDF), ensuring strict adherence to published notation and maximizing proof clarity.

A comprehensive style guide designed for drafting and polishing rigorous economic theory manuscripts following the standards of the Journal of Economic Theory (JET). It emphasizes the theorem-proof structure, strict notation discipline, proper LaTeX formatting (elsarticle), and adherence to academic rigor, ensuring clarity for expert reviewers.

This guide details the specific formatting and content rules for creating an "Internet Appendix" when submitting academic manuscripts to The Journal of Finance (JF). It advises authors on separating extensive proofs, robustness checks, and detailed data construction from the main text to ensure the core paper remains self-contained and adheres to strict page limits, while still providing necessary depth for reviewers.