jfm-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating the microstructure referee's objections for a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript — a pre-submission pre-mortem and, post-decision, a triage of the report. Anticipates and triages; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-referee-strategy --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.
# Referee Strategy (jfm-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - Pre-submission: you want to surface the objections a microstructure insider will raise before they do - A report arrived and you need to triage which comments are fatal, fixable, or push-back - You suspect the referee will challenge measurement or endogeneity rather than the idea - You need to estimate whether the asks are within an R&R's reach or signal a reject - The editor's letter prioritizes some comments and you must read the signal ## The objections JFM referees actually raise A JFM referee is a microstructure specialist. The predictable lines of attack cluster, and most live in measurement and identification, not novelty. | Referee line | What they really doubt | Pre-empt with | |--------------|------------------------|---------------| | "This is not really microstructure" | the mechanism is broad finance | `jfm-topic-selection` framing; lead with the trading-process object | | "The result is driven by the liquidity measure" | measurement artifact | `jfm-empirical-design` + alternative constructs in `jfm-robustness` | | "Liquidity is endogenous here" | reverse causality / confounding | `jfm-identification`: a ma
- When to trigger
- The objections JFM referees actually raise
- Running the pre-mortem and the triage
- Timing the pre-mortem
- Worked pre-mortem (illustrative)
- Reading the decision letter
- The two reviewer profiles to plan for
- Checklist
- What a microstructure referee rewards, beyond catching flaws
- Anti-patterns
- Estimating whether an R&R is reachable
- Output format
What does the jfm-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when anticipating the microstructure referee's objections for a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript — a pre-submission pre-mortem and, post-decision, a triage of the report. Anticipates and triages; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-referee-strategy --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.