jfi-topic-selection
Use when working on Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) manuscripts to test whether the paper is centrally about banking and financial intermediation — whether an intermediary mechanism is load-bearing, how it differs from a Journal of Banking and Finance fit, and whether to lead with theory or empirics — before investing in the draft.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfi-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 (jfi-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - Deciding whether a project fits the Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) at all - Choosing whether the paper's spine is a model (theory) or an empirical design ## The JFI fit bar JFI is an Elsevier journal on **banking, financial intermediation, and the economics of financial institutions and markets**, publishing **both theory and empirics**. The decisive question is: **is an intermediary or financial-institution mechanism first-order?** Strong fits put banks, lenders, dealers, insurers, or other intermediaries — and the frictions they resolve or create (information asymmetry, monitoring, liquidity transformation, capital and regulation, relationship lending) — at the center. A paper is **off-fit** if intermediation is incidental: a pure asset-pricing result, a corporate-finance study where banks are just a control, or a macro paper with no institutional channel. Redirect those to a general finance or field journal unless you can make the intermediation mechanism the load-bearing contribution. ## Theory vs. empirics (decide early) - **Theory-led:** the contribution is a model of intermediary behavior or a market fri
- When to trigger
- The JFI fit bar
- Theory vs. empirics (decide early)
- Fit decision table
- The JBF boundary test
- Worked fit check (illustrative)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jfi-topic-selection skill do?
Use when working on Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) manuscripts to test whether the paper is centrally about banking and financial intermediation — whether an intermediary mechanism is load-bearing, how it differs from a Journal of Banking and Finance fit, and whether to lead with theory or empirics — before investing in the draft.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfi-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.