jfqa-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript against the finance frontier — corporate finance, investments, asset pricing, market microstructure, and financial institutions. Use to stake a precise contribution against the relevant literature without a standalone survey, so the paper reads as new to a quantitative-finance audience.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfqa-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.
# JFQA Literature Positioning (jfqa-literature-positioning) Use this skill to locate a **JFQA** manuscript against the finance literature so the contribution is unmistakable to the reviewers and the assigned Managing Editor. ## What JFQA expects - A **tight positioning paragraph**, not a literature-review chapter. State what is known, the specific gap, and what this paper adds. - Engagement with the **right finance subfield** frontier — corporate finance, investments/asset pricing, microstructure, or institutions — and with the closest recent JFQA / finance-flagship work. - Honest delineation from **near-neighbor papers**: say explicitly how your sample, design, mechanism, or result differs. ## Process 1. Identify the 5-10 closest papers in your subfield and the one or two that a referee will say "this is already done." 2. Write the contrast in one or two sentences each: what they did, what you do differently, why the difference matters economically. 3. Tie the contribution to JFQA's quantitative ethos — a new measurement, a sharper identification, a model with testable implications, or a result that overturns/refines a stylized fact. 4. Avoid claiming "first to study X" unless you
- What JFQA expects
- Process
- Anti-patterns
- Finance-frontier compression
- Rival map worked through (hypothetical payout paper, numbers illustrative)
- Reference-list calibration for a JFQA submission
- Positioning complaints JFQA referees actually write
- Output format
What does the jfqa-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript against the finance frontier — corporate finance, investments, asset pricing, market microstructure, and financial institutions. Use to stake a precise contribution against the relevant literature without a standalone survey, so the paper reads as new to a quantitative-finance audience.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfqa-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.