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Use when anticipating referee objections or calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission. Pre-empts the objections theory referees raise and reads the editorial process; it does not draft the response letter (see aejmic-rebuttal).
Passed 15 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 15 of 22 without it.
and 2 more in the full report
4 fixed11 passed either way3 still failing4 broke
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One of 4 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Before uploading my game theory manuscript to the AEA submission system for AEJ: Micro, I need to evaluate our referee strategy and routing. Can you help me identify potential reviewer sticking points, check our theoretical framing, and verify JEL routing? Please provide an output breakdown containing: 1. The top 3 reviewer objections mapped to proposed solutions. 2. Binary assessments (Y/N) covering load-bearing assumption defenses, crispness of the delta, explicit broad-interest messaging, and proof gap resolution. 3. JEL routing recommendations considering the single-blind process. 4. Venue suitability confirmation (Micro vs Applied). 5. The designated next step.
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Recommends evaluating venue suitability between AEJ: Micro and AEJ: Applied based on whether the primary contribution is microeconomic theory. | Passed | Passed |
| Explains that single-blind submission at AEJ: Micro means no author anonymization is required. | Missed | Passed |
| Advises stating the paper's contribution relative to existing literature in a single concise sentence. | Missed | Passed |
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
resources/official-source-map.md).| Likely objection | Pre-empt it by (skill) |
|---|---|
| "The result is a knife-edge artifact of assumption A." | Name the load-bearing assumption; show necessity / a counterexample on failure (aejmic-identification) |
| "This is too specialized / maximal-generality for AEJ: Micro." | Re-frame the broad-interest message; cut generality that hides it (aejmic-topic-selection, aejmic-theory-model) |
| "How does this differ from [closest result]?" | State the theorem-relative delta in one sentence (aejmic-literature-positioning) |
| "Does it survive [a continuum / asymmetry / perturbation]?" | Provide the earned extension or a clean negative result (aejmic-robustness) |
| "A step in the proof is asserted, not shown." | Complete the lemma scaffolding; self-contained proofs (aejmic-replication-package) |
| "The model is overloaded; the mechanism is invisible." | Reduce to the minimal environment; lead with intuition (aejmic-theory-model, aejmic-writing-style) |
| "This is an empirical paper, not theory." | Either restore the theoretical contribution or redirect to AEJ: Applied (aejmic-topic-selection) |
| (Applied) "Identification / inference is shaky; asterisks used." | Branch B/C identification; SEs not asterisks (aejmic-identification, aejmic-tables-figures) |
test cases passed, vs 15 / 22 without
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