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Twelve agent skills for manuscripts targeted at the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro), the American Economic Association's quarterly, broad-interest macroeconomics journal (founded 2009; one of four AEJs). The pack is built around AEJ: Macro's defining feature — it welcomes both quantitative-theoretical work (DSGE, heterogeneous-agent / HANK, structural estimation) and identified-empirical work (SVAR, local projections, narrative and high-frequency identification) — judged on quantitative discipline and policy relevance. It encodes the AEA submission process: the membership-scaled submission fee, single-blind review, JEL codes, the ≤100-word abstract, the ~40-page length guidance, per-coauthor disclosure, and the AEA Data Editor's pre-publication reproducibility check (covering simulation and model-solution code) deposited at the AEA Data and Code Repository on openICPSR.
Official basis checked 2026-06: AEJ: Macro submission guidelines, editorial policy, and editors pages;
the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy and Office of the AEA Data Editor; the AEA disclosure policy. See
resources/official-source-map.md. Volatile facts (fees, page charge,
editors, length guidance, policy dates) are marked "检索于 2026-06；以官网为准" — verify on the official AEA
pages before relying on a specific number.
AEJ: Macro is neither the general-interest flagship nor a field outlet, and its process has macro-specific traps a generic econ stack misses:
| Constraint | AEJ: Macro specifics | Why a generic stack fails |
|---|---|---|
| Methodological breadth | Both quantitative-theory (DSGE/HANK) and identified-empirics (SVAR/LP/narrative) are in scope | A purely-empirical or purely-structural stack mis-frames half the journal |
| Broad-interest bar | Decisions weigh breadth of topic + interest to the AEJ: Macro audience | Field-depth framing reads as JME/RED, not AEJ: Macro |
| Abstract length | ≤100 words (hard) | Most stacks assume 150–250 words |
| Length guidance | ~40pp (11pt) / ~45pp (12pt), incl. figures/tables/refs/appendices | Generic stacks ignore the page budget and the online-appendix split |
| Review model | Single-blind (author known to referee) | Stacks that assume double-blind anonymization mislead |
| Reproducibility | AEA Data Editor checks before publication; simulation/solver code required | Stacks that package only regression scripts fail the macro check |
| Disclosure | Separate statement per coauthor; $10,000 threshold | One-statement assumptions miss a hard requirement |
As a Claude Code plugin (recommended). Add the marketplace and install:
/plugin marketplace add brycewang-stanford/aej-macroeconomics-skills
/plugin install aej-macroeconomics-skills
Then ask, e.g., "Use aejmac-workflow: my HANK paper got an R&R, what next?" and the router points you to the right skill.
Manually. Copy this directory into your project and point your agent at skills/<name>/SKILL.md. Start
with skills/aejmac-workflow/SKILL.md, the router.
aejmac-workflow (router)
│
▼
topic-selection → literature-positioning → identification ─┐
theory-model ────┤→ robustness → tables-figures
│
writing-style → replication-package → referee-strategy → submission → rebuttal
identification(empirical) andtheory-model(quantitative) are siblings: an empirical paper leans on the former, a quantitative paper on the latter, a hybrid visits both.
| # | Skill | Use it when |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | aejmac-workflow |
Route the manuscript from fit through submission and the R&R |
| 2 | aejmac-topic-selection |
Decide whether the paper fits AEJ: Macro vs. AER, JME, RED, AEJ: Applied |
| 3 | aejmac-literature-positioning |
Stake the contribution vs. the theory and empirical frontiers |
| 4 | aejmac-identification |
Stress-test SVAR / LP / narrative / high-frequency identification |
| 5 | aejmac-theory-model |
Discipline a DSGE / HANK / structural model: calibration, identification, numerics |
| 6 | aejmac-robustness |
Show the headline number survives sample, spec, and method choices |
| 7 | aejmac-tables-figures |
Build IRFs, fan charts, and model-fit exhibits to AEA + macro norms |
| 8 | aejmac-writing-style |
Hit the broad-interest intro arc and the ≤100-word abstract |
| 9 | aejmac-replication-package |
Assemble the openICPSR package (incl. simulation/solver code) for the AEA Data Editor |
| 10 | aejmac-referee-strategy |
Pre-empt the objections macro referees raise; gauge desk-reject risk |
| 11 | aejmac-submission |
Final AEA-system preflight: fee tier, abstract, JEL, disclosure |
| 12 | aejmac-rebuttal |
Draft the response letter and revision plan after an R&R |
resources/README.md— capability-layer index.resources/official-source-map.md— official AEA URLs behind every fact.resources/external_tools.md— data sources and the macro toolchain (FRED/ALFRED, Dynare, sequence-space-Jacobian, SVAR/LP packages).resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— a fictional before→after AEJ: Macro introduction.resources/exemplars/library.md— real, web-verified AEJ: Macro papers by method × topic.resources/code/— a vendored empirical-methods code skeleton (a starting point for macro; add SVAR/LP/DSGE code).
| Journal | Niche | This pack's stance |
|---|---|---|
| AEJ: Macro | Broad-interest macro; quantitative-theory and identified-empirics; AEA process | The target of this pack |
| AER | Top general-interest; first-order, longer papers | Send the field-reshaping result there; AEJ: Macro is high-quality, not the flagship |
| J. Monetary Economics | Field-macro depth for specialists | If breadth is thin, JME fits better |
| RED | Quantitative dynamics / methods for the macro-methods community | A pure dynamic-GE methods paper fits RED |
| AEJ: Applied | Micro-empirical applied identification | A micro paper touching aggregates fits AEJ: Applied |
- Reference pack:
../Quantitative-Economics-Skills/(Econometric Society, structurally identical). - Shared method hub:
../shared-resources/empirical-methods/.
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