jfe-literature-positioning
Use when the related-work section of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript reads like a list and the marginal contribution relative to the top-3 finance frontier is not sharp. Builds the positioning argument; it does not assess identification or design.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfe-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning (jfe-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The literature section is a chronological list of "X did A; Y did B" - A referee could plausibly say "this is already in JF/RFS/JFE paper Z" - You cannot state in two sentences how you differ from the closest paper - You are unsure which strands (corporate finance, asset pricing, theory) you must engage ## How JFE referees read positioning JFE referees are domain experts who know the frontier. They are unforgiving about two things: (1) failing to cite and engage the closest prior work, especially recent top-3 finance papers, and (2) overclaiming novelty against work you simply did not read. Positioning is an argument, not a bibliography. Know the JFE canon you are extending or revising, and attribute it correctly: **Jensen & Meckling (1976)** and **Fama & French (1993, 2015)** are JFE; **Banz (1981)** size effect is JFE; but **Carhart (1997)** momentum-persistence is *Journal of Finance*, not JFE. Miscrediting a foundational paper signals you do not know the literature. JFE's editorial structure is small and field-specialized — Editor-in-Chief Toni M. Whited (Michigan) with co-editors spanning corporate fina
- When to trigger
- How JFE referees read positioning
- Build the positioning argument
- 1. Map the conversation, not the timeline
- 2. Locate the closest papers precisely
- 3. Make the differentiation concrete
- 4. Engage the theory you test or motivate
- 5. Pre-empt the "already known" objection
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jfe-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the related-work section of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript reads like a list and the marginal contribution relative to the top-3 finance frontier is not sharp. Builds the positioning argument; it does not assess identification or design.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfe-literature-positioning --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.