REStud Topic Selection
Evaluates economics research ideas against the Review of Economic Studies publishing bar and sharpens fuzzy concepts into clean, singular contributions.
REStud Topic Selection is a specialized editorial evaluation skill tailored for academic economists targeting The Review of Economic Studies (REStud). It diagnoses whether a working paper or nascent project idea meets the rigorous top-5 economics standard—specifically evaluating whether the core object delivers a genuinely new model, an innovative identification strategy, or a striking empirical fact. By enforcing the one-sentence contribution test and running targeted novelty audits, this skill helps junior and senior researchers identify fatal positioning flaws, eliminate multi-claim bundling, and assess fit prior to submission or desk-rejection recovery.