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jae-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — economics-paper conventions (precise, hypothesis-driven, restrained), Elsevier author-date (Harvard) referencing, numbered sections, and the mandatory Highlights/keywords/JEL packaging — so the writing matches the positive-accounting tradition.
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# Writing Style for JAE (jae-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- Prose is verbose, hedged, or buries the prediction and result
- The intro does not state the economic question, prediction, and finding early
- References are not in Elsevier author-date (Harvard) style
- Highlights, keywords, or JEL codes are missing or off-spec
## Write like an economics paper, not an essay
JAE prose follows the **economics/positive-accounting** register: precise, restrained, and hypothesis-driven. The introduction should, within the first pages, state the **research question, the economic friction, the prediction, the identification, the data, and the headline result** — reviewers should know what you find before the methods section. Use the present tense for established results and active, direct sentences. Avoid normative language ("firms should"), promotional adjectives, and behavioral speculation; let the economic argument and evidence carry the paper.
## Structure and sections