jfe-topic-selection
Use when scoping or framing a topic for a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript and you need to test fit and contribution before investing in data work. Pressure-tests the question and contribution; it does not write the literature review or design the empirics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfe-topic-selection --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.
# Topic Selection & Fit (jfe-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have data or a setting but no sharp economic question yet - You are unsure whether the idea clears the JFE contribution bar - You cannot state in one sentence what is new relative to existing finance papers - You are choosing between JFE, JF, and RFS as the target outlet ## What JFE rewards JFE (Elsevier; North-Holland; ISSN 0304-405X; founded 1974 by Michael C. Jensen) is one of the top-3 finance journals and publishes rigorous, methodologically demanding **empirical** corporate finance and asset pricing, plus the financial-economics theory that supports them. Its stated scope centers on **capital markets, financial institutions, corporate finance, corporate governance, and the economics of organizations**. The durable preference: a clean economic question, answered with a credible design and exhaustive evidence. The two JFE best-paper prizes signal the two halves of the journal's taste: the **Jensen Prize** (best corporate-finance / organizations paper) and the **Fama-DFA Prize** (best asset-pricing / capital-markets paper). Aim a JFE submission at the kind of paper that could plausibly compete for one of them
- When to trigger
- What JFE rewards
- Contribution framing (draft early, refine often)
- Corporate finance vs. asset pricing framing
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jfe-topic-selection skill do?
Use when scoping or framing a topic for a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript and you need to test fit and contribution before investing in data work. Pressure-tests the question and contribution; it does not write the literature review or design the empirics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfe-topic-selection --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.