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Use when a Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) manuscript needs a behavioral or bounded-rationality model to organize, predict, or interpret its evidence. Right-sizes theory in a pluralist journal — from a sharp testable prediction to a standalone behavioral model or agent-based simulation; it does not design the identification or build the package.

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# Behavioral Theory & Model (jebo-theory-model)

## When to trigger

- A referee asks "what model rationalizes this behavior / what is the mechanism?"
- The treatment effect is credible but its behavioral *meaning* is ambiguous
- You have a behavioral model but it generates no prediction the experiment could falsify
- You are building an agent-based or evolutionary model and must justify its discipline
- You are tempted to lead with a heavy structural model and need to right-size it for JEBO

## The JEBO theory dial

JEBO is pluralist: theory can be the **lead** (a behavioral/bounded-rationality model is itself the contribution) or the **support** (a model that yields the prediction an experiment tests, or interprets a reduced-form estimate). What JEBO does not reward is theory that adds notation without a **testable behavioral prediction** or a sharper interpretation. Pick the lightest tool that does the job — and whatever the weight, the model's *behavioral primitives* (preferences, beliefs, heuristics, learning rules) must be explicit and defensible, not assumed for convenience.
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