A skill your agent uses when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript.

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Install Cte Mechanism

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cte-mechanism -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cte-mechanism --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Finance-and-Trade-Economics-Skills/skills/cte-mechanism .claude/skills/cte-mechanism && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
cte-mechanism
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~581 tokens
SKILL.md length
123 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript.

  • Works in 3 steps: 理论指引:机制变量必须能挂上财政 / 货币 / 金融摩擦 / 贸易组织等理论 → 时间一致:机制变量 M 的测量时点要在处理 D 之后、结果 Y… → 可证伪:能写出"如果机制成立 → 应观察到 M 上的变化;如果不成立 →…
  • Writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript
  • SKILL.md covers 触发时机, 财经研究的机制必须落到可识别渠道, 三种主流路径 and 机制写作三段式, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cte Mechanism is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript. Mechanism tests that open the "policy black box" and land on identifiable channels are near-mandatory for empirical submissions. 本技能服务于《财贸经济》(Finance & Trade Economics, CTE)。

Its SKILL.md is about 580 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript

Example prompts

  • “policy black box”
  • “/cte-mechanism”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. 理论指引:机制变量必须能挂上财政 / 货币 / 金融摩擦 / 贸易组织等理论
  2. 时间一致:机制变量 M 的测量时点要在处理 D 之后、结果 Y 之前(面板尤其注意财务年度先后)
  3. 可证伪:能写出"如果机制成立 → 应观察到 M 上的变化;如果不成立 → 应观察到 Y"

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Cte Mechanism loads about 581 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 123 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~581

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 123 words, ~581 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cte-mechanism/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
cte-mechanism
description
Use when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript. Mechanism tests that open the "policy black box" and land on identifiable channels are near-mandatory for empirical submissions. 本技能服务于《财贸经济》(Finance & Trade Economics, CTE)。

机制分析(cte-mechanism)

触发时机

  • 主回归结果已稳健,但缺机制分析("机制黑箱"是本刊退稿雷区之一)
  • 机制只有"我们认为可能是因为企业……"的口头说明
  • 审稿人问"为什么这项财税 / 金融 / 贸易政策会有这个效应?"

财经研究的机制必须落到可识别渠道

《财贸经济》忌讳机制停留在宏观口号("促进了高质量发展")。机制变量应落到企业 / 银行 / 地方政府 / 居民 / 市场的可观测行为或资源配置上,例如:

  • 企业行为:投资、研发、雇佣、融资结构、税负与现金流、出口决策
  • 金融中介:信贷投放、风险定价、期限结构、不良率、流动性
  • 财政 / 地方政府:支出结构、举债、土地财政、征管努力
  • 居民 / 消费:收入结构、储蓄与消费、预防性动机、资产配置
  • 市场层面:价格、市场进入退出、要素配置效率、市场一体化程度

三种主流路径

路径 A:中介效应 / 调节效应
  • 经典 Baron & Kenny 已被弱化 → 推荐 Bootstrap + 直接估计 + 因果中介(Imai-Keele-Yamamoto)
  • 不要只跑 Sobel 检验
  • 推荐报告:直接效应、间接效应、效应占比
路径 B:替换被解释变量为机制变量(本刊最常见)
  • 主回归:财经政策 / 冲击 → Y(如企业投资 / 全要素生产率 / 信贷)
  • 机制:政策 → M(M 为可识别的中间机制变量,如融资约束、税负、要素成本)
  • 然后论证 M → Y 的合理性(理论 + 已有财经文献)
路径 C:跨子样本对比
  • 在"机制成立"和"机制不成立"的子样本(如融资约束强 / 弱企业)中分别估计
  • 若系数有显著差异 → 构成机制证据
  • 需要 Chow 检验或交互项确认系数差异显著

机制写作三段式

本文进一步从[机制名,落到企业 / 银行 / 地方政府 / 居民行为]角度提供证据。
首先,从理论上看,[机制变量 M] 应通过[渠道]影响[因变量 Y]……
其次,实证上,本文采用[路径 A/B/C]:……,估计结果如表 X 所示。
最后,结合[已有财经文献与中国制度背景],本文认为该机制在中国[财税 / 金融 / 贸易]情境下……。

机制设计三原则

  1. 理论指引:机制变量必须能挂上财政 / 货币 / 金融摩擦 / 贸易组织等理论
  2. 时间一致:机制变量 M 的测量时点要在处理 D 之后、结果 Y 之前(面板尤其注意财务年度先后)
  3. 可证伪:能写出"如果机制成立 → 应观察到 M 上的变化;如果不成立 → 应观察到 Y"

必查清单

  • 至少 1 个机制(理想 2–3 个互补机制)
  • 机制变量落到企业 / 银行 / 地方政府 / 居民 / 市场层面,且来源于理论 / 已有财经文献
  • 机制变量构造时间逻辑正确(不使用未来信息 / 后一期数据反推)
  • 机制部分至少 1 张独立的回归表
  • 机制结果与主回归一致(不能机制证伪了主结论)
  • 排除竞争机制(至少讨论一个替代解释并给出诊断)

反模式

  • 用"我们认为可能是因为企业更有活力 / 政策好"一句话代替机制分析
  • 机制停留在宏观叙事("促进了高质量发展"),不落到可观测行为
  • 中介效应只跑 Sobel 检验
  • 机制变量与处理变量构造时使用了未来期信息
  • 机制结果反向(机制变量与主效应方向相反)但不解释

输出格式

【机制数】X 个
【机制路径】A 中介 / B 替换 Y / C 子样本
【机制层面】企业 / 银行 / 地方政府 / 居民 / 市场
【理论引用】[财经文献]
【竞争机制排除】已 / 未
【时间一致性】通过 / 待修
【下一步】cte-heterogeneity

《财贸经济》操作审查

先锁定财经问题、政策 / 制度场景、识别链条、机制证据和可执行含义,再判断稿件是否回应财经审稿人通常同时追问的问题意识、政策场景、识别可信度与制度机制。

  • 机制审查:每条机制都要写出中介变量、时间顺序、竞争机制和至少一个诊断或排除性检验,杜绝"机制黑箱"。
  • 决策账本:返回"主张 / 证据 / 阻断点 / 下一处改稿"四列,便于下一轮直接改稿。
  • 改投比较:对照《经济研究》用于更一般理论贡献,《金融研究》用于纯金融机制,《世界经济》用于开放宏观 / 贸易;若相邻刊物读者匹配更强,先建议改投而非继续润色。
  • 核验底线:给投稿就绪判断前,必须重开 resources/official-source-map.md,列出仍可能改变建议的一个未核实事实。

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Finance-and-Trade-Economics-Skills/skills/cte-mechanism of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Cte Mechanism

What does Cte Mechanism do?

A skill your agent uses when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript. Cte Mechanism is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript.

When should I use Cte Mechanism?

Cte Mechanism fits situations like: writing mechanism analyses for a 《财贸经济》 empirical manuscript.

How do I install Cte Mechanism in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cte-mechanism -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Finance-and-Trade-Economics-Skills/skills/cte-mechanism in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/cte-mechanism in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cte Mechanism in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cte-mechanism -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Finance-and-Trade-Economics-Skills/skills/cte-mechanism in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/cte-mechanism in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cte Mechanism in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cte-mechanism -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cte-mechanism, .gemini/skills/cte-mechanism, .github/skills/cte-mechanism and .opencode/skills/cte-mechanism in your project.

What does Cte Mechanism need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cte Mechanism is instructions for the agent only.

Does Cte Mechanism access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Cte Mechanism safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Cte Mechanism use?

Cte Mechanism is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Cte Mechanism use?

About 581 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Cte Mechanism?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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