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Use when sharpening the core methodological contribution of a Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES) paper into one legible claim that pairs novelty with empirical relevance. Frames the contribution; it does not develop the theory or run the analysis.

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# Contribution Framing (jbes-contribution-framing)

## When to trigger

- The paper has results but the "what is the contribution?" answer is muddy
- Reviewers/co-authors disagree on whether the paper is a method paper, an application, or both
- The introduction lists many small points instead of one organizing contribution
- You need a one-sentence pitch the handling Co-Editor can grasp on a first read

## The JBES contribution shape: novelty × relevance

A JBES contribution is not "we found an empirical result" and not "we proved a theorem." It is a **method-level claim with an empirical consequence**: *we develop/improve method M so that practitioners can now do D in setting S, which prior methods could not.* Because JBES sits between modern data science and classical econometrics, the framing must make the **methodological delta** explicit (what is new about M) **and** the **empirical relevance** explicit (why D in S matters). A contribution naming only one of these reads as off-scope for a methods-with-empirics journal.

## Framing protocol
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