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journal-of-accounting-and-economics
GitHub用于判断会计稿件是否适合投稿至JAE期刊，提供定位、框架调整、方法证据标准及拒稿风险建议。适用于涉及经济机制、契约或披露的实证研究，辅助作者优化论文以符合JAE的理论驱动和严谨识别要求。
触发场景
作者指定JAE为投稿目标
涉及契约、披露或报告选择的经济学基础实证研究
需强调经济机制贡献的会计论文
需要了解JAE拒稿风险或替代期刊建议
安装
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-accounting-and-economics -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "journal-of-accounting-and-economics",
"description": "Use when targeting Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) or deciding whether an accounting manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Journal of Accounting and Economics (journal-of-accounting-and-economics)
Journal positioning
JAE is one of accounting's "big three" and the home of the economics-based, positive-accounting tradition associated with the Rochester/Wharton school. It publishes research that applies economic theory and rigorous identification to accounting questions — contracting, disclosure, and the determinants and consequences of accounting choices — with a strong economic-mechanism orientation. Its taste is theory-disciplined empirics and economics-flavored analytical work. Readership is the economics-oriented accounting and accounting-finance community.
This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the JAE / Elsevier site and the submission system.
When to trigger
- The author names JAE (or the economics-based positive-accounting tradition) as the venue.
- A contracting, disclosure, or reporting-choice paper grounded in economic theory with strong identification needs positioning.
- An accounting paper whose contribution is an economic mechanism (incentives, information, contracting) needs framing for this audience.
- The author needs JAE's desk-reject risks and a credible JAR / TAR / RAST alternative list.
Scope & topic fit
- Contracting and incentives: compensation, debt contracts, governance, and the role of accounting numbers in contracts.
- Disclosure economics: voluntary and mandatory disclosure, information asymmetry, and the consequences of reporting.
- Positive accounting theory: determinants and consequences of accounting and reporting choices.
- Capital-markets and regulation questions framed through an explicit economic mechanism.
Method & evidence bar
- Economic theory disciplines the empirics: hypotheses follow from an explicit economic mechanism, not from data exploration.
- Identification and clean inference are essential for causal claims; exogenous variation and careful confounder treatment are expected.
- Measurement and proxies must map to the underlying economic construct and be defended.
- Analytical contributions need rigorous models whose implications are economically and institutionally relevant.
Structure & house style
- The introduction states the economic mechanism, the testable implications, and the identification, distinguishing the contribution from the nearest prior work.
- A strong JAE paper ties every empirical test back to the economic theory and treats robustness/falsification as central.
- JAE expects an online appendix for derivations, additional tests, and variable detail, with strong data/code transparency.
- Writing is economics-flavored and mechanism-driven; magnitudes and economic interpretation lead.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked. - Search the live site for "Journal of Accounting and Economics submission guidelines / author instructions" and follow the current Elsevier version.
- Re-check formatting, abstract conventions, anonymization, reference style, and the online-appendix requirement.
- Re-check current data and code availability / replication policies and disclosure/ethics requirements.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- One sentence stating the economic mechanism and the accounting question it explains.
- Hypotheses follow from explicit economic theory, and proxies map to the underlying constructs.
- Identification, inference, and falsification tests meet JAE's standards.
- The introduction positions the paper against the closest recent JAE / JAR work.
- Derivations/online appendix and data/code transparency are ready per the current guide.
Common desk-reject triggers
- An empirical paper with no explicit economic mechanism or theory motivating the tests.
- A causal claim with endogeneity or selection left unaddressed.
- Proxies that do not credibly map to the economic construct.
- A descriptive or atheoretical association offered as a contribution.
Re-routing decision
- Economics-based archival capital-markets with a design-first emphasis →
journal-of-accounting-research. - Broad accounting across methods →
the-accounting-review; analytical/empirical valuation and information economics →review-of-accounting-studies. - Methodologically pluralistic elite →
contemporary-accounting-research; interpretive/critical →accounting-organizations-and-society. - Corporate-finance/contracting that is really finance →
journal-of-finance/journal-of-financial-economics; economics-core → a field economics venue.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of Accounting and Economics
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <does the economic mechanism + identification clear JAE's bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <submission system / online appendix / data-code / disclosure>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
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