jae-contribution-framingUse when articulating the contribution of a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — stating explicitly what the paper teaches about accounting's economic role (information content, contracting, disclosure, standards) and why an economics-based result advances the positive-accounting l
jae-data-analysisUse when running and reporting the empirical analysis for a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — building the archival sample, choosing fixed effects and clustered standard errors, executing the identification design, and demonstrating robustness for large-sample capital-markets/co
jae-literature-positioningUse when positioning a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript within the positive-accounting and economics literatures — joining the right conversation (capital-markets, contracting, disclosure, standards), engaging seminal economics-based work, and avoiding gap-spotting.
jae-methodsUse when designing the empirical (or analytical) approach for a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — choosing an identification strategy (natural experiments, DiD, IV, RD) for large-sample archival capital-markets/contracting/disclosure data, or structuring an economic model, so th
jae-rebuttalUse when planning revisions and drafting the point-by-point response for a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) revise-and-resubmit — prioritizing the editor's identification and contribution concerns, satisfying economics-trained reviewers with new tests, and noting that resubmissions carry no
jae-review-processUse when anticipating or interpreting the Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) review process — the editor suitability screen and Article Transfer Service desk-reject culture, double-anonymized review by a minimum of two reviewers, compact editor-final decision model, and annual JAE Conference
jae-submissionUse when preparing to submit to the Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) — the Editorial Manager preflight, submission-fee live check, double-anonymized file separation (anonymized manuscript plus title page), mandatory Highlights, keywords and JEL codes, and Elsevier author-date formatting.
jae-tables-figuresUse when building the exhibits for a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — variable-definition appendix, sample-construction table, descriptive statistics and correlations, regression tables with clustered standard errors, and event-study/DiD figures — in Elsevier house style so eac
jae-theory-developmentUse when building the economic argument and predictions for a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — grounding hypotheses in agency, information-economics, contracting, or disclosure theory so the paper applies economic theory to explain accounting phenomena rather than reporting a b
jae-topic-selectionUse when choosing or sharpening a research question for the Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) — testing economics-based fit, distinguishing JAE from JAR/TAR/RAST, and ensuring the question is about accounting's economic role rather than a normative or behavioral puzzle.
jae-workflowUse when deciding which jae-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.
jae-writing-styleUse when polishing the prose of a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — economics-paper conventions (precise, hypothesis-driven, restrained), Elsevier author-date (Harvard) referencing, numbered sections, and the mandatory Highlights/keywords/JEL packaging — so the writing matches t