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Use when a Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) manuscript needs a resource/pollution-control or dynamic-resource model that earns its place — generating a testable comparative static or a policy-relevant welfare expression, not decorating an empirical result. Sharpens the model; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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# Theory and Model Craft (jeem-theory-model)

## When to trigger

- A pollution/abatement or resource-extraction model is in the paper but a referee asks "what does the model buy us?"
- The empirical work needs a conceptual frame that maps estimates to a **welfare or optimal-policy** statement
- A dynamic-resource problem (fishery, forest, groundwater, exhaustible stock) needs its Euler/Hotelling logic made explicit
- The model's comparative statics are stated but never confronted with data or used to derive the efficient instrument

## What a model must earn at JEEM

JEEM is empirical-leaning, so a model is rarely the whole paper; it must **do work**. A model earns its place if it (a) produces a sign or magnitude prediction the empirics then test, (b) delivers the **welfare or optimal-instrument** expression that turns reduced-form estimates into a policy number, or (c) reveals a mechanism — leakage, avoidance, dynamic adjustment — that changes the interpretation. A model that only restates intuition or that cannot be confronted with the data should be cut to an appendix or removed.

## When the paper needs no formal model
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