Jie Tables Figures

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name: jie-tables-figures
description: Use when building or auditing tables and figures for a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript — gravity/coefficient tables, event-study and pass-through impulse-response plots, structural counterfactual charts, and self-contained notes that an international-trade or open-economy-macro referee can read standalone. Shapes exhibits; it does not generate results.
---

# Tables & Figures (jie-tables-figures)

## When to trigger

- Drafting the main regression/gravity tables or the headline figures
- A figure or table cannot be understood without hunting through the text
- You are unsure which exhibit should carry the headline result for a JIE referee

## JIE exhibit conventions

JIE referees split between international trade and international macro/finance; build exhibits each side reads fluently, with **economic magnitudes** front and center (not just stars).

### Tables
- **Gravity / PPML tables**: report the estimator (PPML), the fixed-effect structure (importer×time, exporter×time, pair), the number of zeros retained, and the trade elasticity with an economic reading. State the standard-error clustering (often multi-way for dyadic data).
- **Macro/finance panels**: report the panel structure, dynamic-bias handling, and clustering; show the coefficient as an elasticity or semi-elasticity, not a bare number.
- **Structural tables**: show **targeted vs untargeted moments** side by side and the calibrated/estimated parameters with sources.

### Figures
- **Event-study / trade-policy plots**: pre-period leads near zero, confidence bands shown.
- **Pass-through / impulse responses**: horizon on the x-axis, bands shown, currency-of-invoicing caveats noted.
- **Counterfactual charts**: welfare or trade-share changes from the structural model, with the elasticity used stated in the note.
- Vector output (PDF/EPS); avoid chartjunk (no 3D, minimal color).

### Notes (self-contained)
- Each exhibit's note states the sample (countries/products/years), estimator, fixed effects, clustering, and what a coefficient means in units. A referee should never need the body text to read the table.

## Checklist

- [ ] Headline result is the clearest single exhibit (a gravity table or one figure)
- [ ] Estimator, FE structure, and clustering stated in every table note
- [ ] Economic magnitude (elasticity / welfare / pass-through), not just significance
- [ ] Structural exhibits show targeted and untargeted moments
- [ ] Figures show confidence bands; vector output, print-legible
- [ ] Every exhibit numbered, called out in order, and self-contained in its note
- [ ] Each exhibit is regenerated by the replication script (no hand edits)

## Anti-patterns

- A gravity table that hides the estimator and FE structure
- Reporting stars without the trade/welfare/pass-through magnitude
- A structural table showing only the moments it targeted
- Figures with no confidence bands or with chartjunk
- Notes that force the reader back into the text to interpret the exhibit

## Output format

```
【Headline exhibit】(table/figure that carries the result)
【Estimator/FE stated】[Y/N]
【Magnitude reported】elasticity / welfare / pass-through
【Structural moments】targeted + untargeted shown? [Y/N]
【Notes self-contained】[Y/N]
【Reproducible】each exhibit from script? [Y/N]
【Next step】jie-writing-style
```

## Supplementary resources

- [`../../resources/external_tools.md`](../../resources/external_tools.md) — plotting and estimation tooling for trade/macro exhibits
- [`../../resources/official-source-map.md`](../../resources/official-source-map.md) — scope and reference-style sources