jfi-contribution-framing
Use when framing the contribution of a Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) paper around what it teaches about intermediation — the institution, the friction, the mechanism, and the economic consequence — so it clears the desk screen and reads as banking, not generic finance. It frames; it does not write the paper.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfi-contribution-framing --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.
# Contribution Framing (jfi-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - Drafting the abstract and the contribution paragraph of the introduction - A reader cannot tell, in one sentence, why intermediaries are central to your result ## The JFI framing bar Because JFI runs an **active desk-rejection** screen, the contribution must be legible in the abstract and first pages. Frame it as a statement about **intermediation**, not finance in general. A strong frame names four things: 1. **Institution / intermediary** — banks, lenders, dealers, insurers, the specific actor. 2. **Friction** — the economic problem the intermediary faces or resolves (information asymmetry, monitoring, liquidity transformation, capital constraints, agency). 3. **Mechanism** — how that friction produces the result; the causal or theoretical channel. 4. **Consequence** — why it matters for credit, stability, welfare, or policy. "Banks do X" is weak; "Because of friction F, intermediary type I responds via mechanism M, with consequence C for credit/stability" is a JFI contribution. ## Empirical vs. theory framing - **Empirical:** lead with the identified fact and the mechanism it reveals, then the broader lesson
- When to trigger
- The JFI framing bar
- Empirical vs. theory framing
- Worked vignette: framing a capital-shock transmission paper
- Frame-strength ladder for the desk screen
- Referee pushback on the frame, and the JFI fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jfi-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when framing the contribution of a Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) paper around what it teaches about intermediation — the institution, the friction, the mechanism, and the economic consequence — so it clears the desk screen and reads as banking, not generic finance. It frames; it does not write the paper.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfi-contribution-framing --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.