finman-identification
Use when the causal or economic credibility of a Financial Management (FM) result is the bottleneck — endogenous corporate policy choices, staggered-event designs, weak instruments, or a "correlation dressed as a channel." Stress-tests the identification to FM's applied-finance bar before exhibits are finalized.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-identification --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Identification Strategy (finman-identification) ## When to trigger - The headline claim rests on a regression of an outcome on an endogenous corporate-policy choice plus controls - A difference-in-differences exploits a regulation or shock with **staggered** adoption and uses plain TWFE - An instrument is invoked but the exclusion restriction and first-stage strength are not defended - You are asserting a *channel* or *mechanism* where the design only supports a correlation ## The FM identification bar FM is an applied-finance journal that prizes **practical relevance**, but practical relevance does not buy a pass on identification — the editors list **rigor** alongside relevance among the five criteria. The realistic standard is **credible, well-defended causal or economic identification appropriate to corporate-finance data**, not the absolute frontier bar of JF/JFE/RFS. What FM referees reward: a clearly named source of exogenous variation, a design matched to it, and an honest statement of what is and is not identified — paired with an economically meaningful magnitude. What they punish: endogeneity hand-waved away with firm fixed effects, a "shock" that is anticipated or con
- When to trigger
- The FM identification bar
- Branch paths
- Branch A: Corporate-finance event / regulation designs (DiD, event study)
- Branch C: Asset pricing / return predictability
- Branch D: Mechanism / channel claims
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the identification fix
- A note on FM's identification taste vs. the top-3
- The minimum credible-design package by branch
- Output format
What does the finman-identification skill do?
Use when the causal or economic credibility of a Financial Management (FM) result is the bottleneck — endogenous corporate policy choices, staggered-event designs, weak instruments, or a "correlation dressed as a channel." Stress-tests the identification to FM's applied-finance bar before exhibits are finalized.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-identification --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.