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Use when the prose, introduction, or abstract of a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript needs to land its institutional/organizational contribution for an OUP economics-of-institutions audience. Sharpens framing and exposition; it does not change the analysis or the model.

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# Writing Style (jleo-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The introduction explains what was done before it says what institutional question is answered and why it matters
- The abstract reads like a methods summary, not a claim about how an institution or organization works
- A reader from the TCE/PPE community cannot tell in the first page which conversation the paper joins
- The model and empirics are settled but the prose still buries the mechanism under notation or data description
- The paper is written in JLE price-theory voice or Org-Science behavioral voice rather than the institutional-economics register

## The JLEO voice

JLEO prose is the prose of institutional and organizational economics: it leads with an **institutional puzzle**, names the **mechanism**, and frames the contribution for readers steeped in Coase, Williamson, North, and Hart. Write the introduction last, after the model and identification settle, and make it do this work in order:
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