jfi-literature-positioning
Use when working on a Journal of Financial Intermediation manuscript to stake the contribution against the banking and financial-intermediation frontier — name the closest intermediation papers and the precise mechanism gap you fill. It positions; it does not write a standalone survey.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfi-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 (jfi-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - Writing or revising the introduction and related-work section for a JFI paper - A referee said the contribution relative to existing intermediation work is unclear ## The JFI positioning bar JFI readers are **banking and financial-intermediation specialists**. Position the paper against the intermediation frontier — relationship lending and monitoring, liquidity transformation and runs, bank capital and regulation, credit supply and the lending channel, information asymmetry and screening, financial-contracting and security design — not against generic finance. Name the **two to four closest papers** and state the **specific mechanism or margin** you add, change, or overturn. Distinguish your work from neighboring fields that JFI brushes against: pure asset pricing, pure corporate finance where banks are incidental, and macro-finance with no institutional channel. If your closest comparisons are all outside intermediation, that is a signal to recheck fit (see jfi-topic-selection). ## How to position - **For empirics:** "Closest is X (which shows A using design D); we differ by identifying mechanism M with a
- When to trigger
- The JFI positioning bar
- How to position
- Anchor literatures a JFI referee expects you to command
- Positioning against JFI's neighbors
- A worked positioning move (illustrative)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jfi-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when working on a Journal of Financial Intermediation manuscript to stake the contribution against the banking and financial-intermediation frontier — name the closest intermediation papers and the precise mechanism gap you fill. It positions; it does not write a standalone survey.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfi-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.