jfm-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript against the microstructure frontier and its broad-finance siblings — staking a contribution the markets-literature insiders will recognize. Positions; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-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 (jfm-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The contribution sentence is generic ("we study liquidity and X") and a microstructure reader cannot tell what is new - You are not sure whether the closest prior work is in JFM, JF, JFE, RFS, JFQA, or the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis microstructure issues - A referee wrote "this is incremental to [known microstructure paper]" or "the canonical citation is missing" - The theory lineage (Kyle 1985, Glosten-Milgrom 1985, Easley-O'Hara, Amihud-Mendelson) is not anchored - The paper risks being read as a worse version of a broad-finance result rather than a sharper microstructure one ## Positioning JFM against the broad-finance siblings JFM referees are specialists; they reward a contribution stated in **microstructure terms** and punish positioning that treats the paper as general finance. The differentiation is not "lower-ranked version of JF" — it is "deeper on market mechanics than JF/RFS would publish." | Sibling | What they reward | How to position *away* toward JFM | |---------|------------------|-----------------------------------| | Journal of Finance (JF) | broad importance, general-i
- When to trigger
- Positioning JFM against the broad-finance siblings
- Building the contribution stack
- Worked positioning (illustrative)
- Common positioning failures and the fix
- Mapping the literature by sub-field
- Checklist
- Writing the contribution paragraph
- Citation hygiene the referees check
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jfm-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript against the microstructure frontier and its broad-finance siblings — staking a contribution the markets-literature insiders will recognize. Positions; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-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.