A skill your agent uses when a European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built or tightened — a pure-theory result, a quantitative/structural macro model, or a conceptual…

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Install Eer Theory Model

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-theory-model -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills eer-theory-model --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/European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-theory-model .claude/skills/eer-theory-model && 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
eer-theory-model
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
563 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when a European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built or tightened — a pure-theory result, a quantitative/structural macro model, or a conceptual…

  • A European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The EER theory bar, Branch paths and Checklist, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tightened — a pure-theory result

What it does

Eer Theory Model is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when a European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built or tightened — a pure-theory result, a quantitative/structural macro model, or a conceptual frame disciplining an empirical paper. Sharpens the model's contribution, assumptions, and link to data; it does not run the empirical identification or robustness.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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

  • A European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built
  • Tightened — a pure-theory result
  • A quantitative/structural macro model
  • A conceptual frame disciplining an empirical paper

Example prompts

  • “/eer-theory-model”

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

Eer Theory Model loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 563 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 563 words, ~1,258 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/eer-theory-model/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
eer-theory-model
description
Use when a European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built or tightened — a pure-theory result, a quantitative/structural macro model, or a conceptual frame disciplining an empirical paper. Sharpens the model's contribution, assumptions, and link to data; it does not run the empirical identification or robustness.

Theory & Model Craft (eer-theory-model)

When to trigger

  • The paper is pure theory and the result needs to be sharp and general
  • A macro/quantitative model needs discipline (calibration/estimation, mapping to data)
  • An empirical paper needs a model to organize the mechanism and interpret estimates
  • Reviewers ask "what is the model adding?" or "why these assumptions?"

The EER theory bar

EER publishes theory and empirical work across all fields, so a model is judged on whether it yields a general, interpretable result a non-specialist can grasp — not machinery for its own sake. For pure theory: the proposition must be clean, general, and economically meaningful, with assumptions that are minimal and defended. For quantitative/structural work: the model must be disciplined by data (calibration targets or estimation) and used to deliver a counterfactual or quantity a reduced-form design cannot. For theory-disciplining-empirics: the model must organize the mechanism and tell the reader what the estimates mean.

Branch paths

Branch A: Pure / micro theory
  • State the main result first (proposition), then the assumptions it needs — minimal and economically motivated.
  • Argue generality: does the result depend on a knife-edge assumption? Show robustness of the theoretical result to weakening key assumptions.
  • Provide intuition for every formal result — a generalist reader must see why it holds.
  • Keep proofs of key results in the main paper or a clearly-organized appendix.
Branch B: Quantitative / structural model
  • Discipline by data: state calibration targets or the estimation objective (MLE/GMM/MSM/SMM); report sources for every parameter.
  • Identification of parameters: tie each estimated parameter to the data feature/moment that pins it (hand off the empirical side to eer-identification where relevant).
  • Fit: report fit to targeted moments and validate against untargeted moments.
  • Counterfactual: argue the parameters are policy-invariant enough for the experiment you run (Lucas critique); carry uncertainty into the counterfactual.
Branch C: Theory disciplining an empirical paper
  • The model exists to interpret estimates: derive the sign/comparative static the empirics test.
  • Map model objects to estimable parameters; state what the empirical coefficient is in the model.
  • Avoid a decorative model that the empirics do not actually test.
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Checklist

  • Branch chosen; the model's job stated in one sentence
  • Pure theory: main proposition stated first; assumptions minimal + defended; intuition given
  • Generality argued (result not a knife-edge artifact)
  • Quantitative: calibration/estimation discipline; parameter sources; targeted + untargeted fit
  • Counterfactual rests on a defended policy-invariance argument; uncertainty carried
  • Theory-for-empirics: model delivers the testable comparative static the data examine
  • A non-specialist can state what the model adds in one sentence

Anti-patterns

  • A model whose only role is decoration — the empirics never test its predictions
  • A proposition that holds only under a knife-edge assumption presented as general
  • Quantitative results with no untargeted-moment validation ("it fits what we asked it to")
  • A counterfactual that assumes policy-invariant parameters without arguing for it
  • Formal results with no intuition — opaque to the general-interest EER reader
  • Burying the main theoretical result behind pages of setup

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A growth paper builds an endogenous-growth model. A weak version states equilibrium equations and calibrates with no transitional analysis. An EER version states the main proposition first (the growth rate is globally stable under condition C), gives the economic intuition (a self-correcting innovation incentive), shows the result survives weakening C, and then quantifies the transition speed (illustrative half-life ~7 years) with sensitivity to the key elasticity. A generalist sees the lesson: why this class of models does not hinge on knife-edge scale effects.

Output format

【Model role】pure theory / quantitative-structural / theory-for-empirics
【Main result】proposition or headline quantity, stated first
【Assumptions】minimal set + why each is economically reasonable
【Discipline】generality argument (theory) OR calibration/estimation + fit (quant)
【Counterfactual / testable implication】+ uncertainty / policy-invariance
【What it does NOT establish】[...]
【Next step】eer-identification (if empirics test it) or eer-robustness

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-theory-model of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Eer Theory Model

What does Eer Theory Model do?

A skill your agent uses when a European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built or tightened — a pure-theory result, a quantitative/structural macro model, or a conceptual…. Eer Theory Model is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when a European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built or tightened — a pure-theory result, a quantitative/structural macro model, or a conceptual frame disciplining an empirical paper.

When should I use Eer Theory Model?

Eer Theory Model fits situations like: A European Economic Review (EER) manuscript needs a theoretical model built; tightened — a pure-theory result; A quantitative/structural macro model; A conceptual frame disciplining an empirical paper.

How do I install Eer Theory Model in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-theory-model -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-theory-model in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/eer-theory-model in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Eer Theory Model in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eer-theory-model -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/eer-theory-model in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/eer-theory-model in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Eer Theory Model 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 eer-theory-model -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/eer-theory-model, .gemini/skills/eer-theory-model, .github/skills/eer-theory-model and .opencode/skills/eer-theory-model in your project.

What does Eer Theory Model need to run?

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

Does Eer Theory Model 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 Eer Theory Model 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 Eer Theory Model use?

Eer Theory Model 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 Eer Theory Model use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Eer Theory Model?

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Who maintains Eer Theory Model?

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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