China Economic Quarterly Skills

Use when building or auditing the exhibits of a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) manuscript — favoring figures over tables (event-study plots, bin-scatter, model-fit / counterfactual figures) so the main result is legible at a glance, since many readers consume the English abstract plus figures. Use after identification and mechanism are settled.

Use when drafting the response letter for a revise-and-resubmit (R&R) at 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) — where reviewers are typically field-trained and press hardest on identification, modern-DID compliance, and inference. Structures a point-by-point reply that concedes or rebuts with evidence. Use only after the manuscript itself has been revised.

Use when deciding which ceq-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from fit judgment through rebuttal for 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ). Routes — does not replace — the specialized skills.

Use when scrutinizing statistical inference for a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) manuscript — choosing and justifying the clustering level, handling weak instruments with robust inference, correcting for multiple hypothesis testing, and reporting standard errors that survive a technical reviewer. Default robust SEs are rarely enough at CEQ.

Use when a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) manuscript has a credible main effect but the channel/mechanism is asserted rather than evidenced — to design tests that distinguish competing channels and provide falsifiable mechanism evidence. Use after identification is settled.

Use when a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) manuscript uses difference-in-differences with staggered adoption or heterogeneous treatment effects — to bring it into compliance with modern estimators (Callaway–Sant'Anna, de Chaisemartin–D'Haultfœuille, Sun–Abraham) instead of bare two-way fixed effects. Bare TWFE on staggered timing is a near-certain reject at CEQ.

Use for the pre-submission preflight to 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) — checking the online system (oaj.pku.edu.cn / ccj.pku.edu.cn), in-text author-date citation style (页内夹注, not footnotes), abstract limits (≤200字 中文 / ≤100词 英文), three keywords, three JEL codes, the 15,000-word length cap, reproducibility, and double-blind anonymity. Use right before submitting; verify every rule against the journal's current 投稿须知.

Use when the identification strategy is the bottleneck for a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) manuscript — either a structural model with credible parameters, or a clean quasi-experiment (DID / IV / RDD / event-study). CEQ is the strictest Chinese econ journal here; identification assumptions must be made explicit and each defended. Stress-test the design before drafting exhibits.

Use to judge whether a manuscript is on-target for 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) before investing in revision — CEQ is the strictest Chinese econ journal on identification and the most internationally legible. If the fit is weak, re-route to economic-research / china-industrial-economics / journal-of-financial-research / journal-of-world-economy.

Use when shaping or sharpening a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) research question — turning data/correlation into a clean causal, model-able, internationally-legible topic that a field economist can recognize as a contribution. Use before literature review and identification.

Use when writing or polishing the English abstract and contribution statement for a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) manuscript — producing a tight English abstract (≤ ~100 words per the journal's guideline) that reads to a field economist and benchmarks the contribution against specific papers. Use at the polish stage, after identification and results are final.

Use when positioning a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) manuscript's contribution against the literature — benchmarking the precise method/result delta versus specific field papers (English + Chinese), not piling citations. Use after the topic is set and before/alongside identification.