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jar-contribution-framing

Use when turning empirical results into an explicit contribution to accounting knowledge for a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript — stating what we now know about how accounting information is produced, disclosed, audited, or used, and why it matters economically. Frames the contribution; it does not run the analysis (jar-data-analysis) or polish prose (jar-writing-style).

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# Contribution Framing (jar-contribution-framing)

## When to trigger

- You have clean, identified results but the "so what for accounting" is thin
- A referee says "the contribution is incremental" or "this confirms what we knew"
- The discussion section restates results without stating what we learned
- You need intro and discussion contribution sentences that survive referees

## What counts as a contribution at JAR

JAR rewards research that changes our understanding of **how accounting information is produced, disclosed, audited, regulated, or used in markets and contracts**. A publishable contribution typically does one of: (a) identifies a previously unestablished **causal** effect of an accounting/disclosure/regulatory feature; (b) **adjudicates** between competing economic theories using a setting that separates them; (c) documents an economically important **mechanism** (not just a reduced-form correlation); or (d) introduces a **new measure or setting** that reopens a literature. The increment must be economically consequential — for investors, analysts, creditors, auditors, standard-setters, or managers — not merely statistically detectable.

## Write the contribution explicitly