jimf-identification
Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript — open-economy causal designs, high-frequency policy/FX surprises, capital-control natural experiments, or parameter identification in an open-economy model. Stress-tests the strategy to JIMF's international-finance bar.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jimf-identification --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.
# Identification Strategy (jimf-identification) ## When to trigger - A cross-country result rests on OLS-plus-controls and a referee will call it a correlation - A high-frequency event study's "surprise" measure may be contaminated (information channel, anticipation, overlapping windows) - A capital-control / FX-intervention / regime-switch design lacks a credible control group - An open-economy model is estimated but it is unclear *what in the data* identifies each parameter - You are unsure the design clears JIMF's bar for an international causal claim ## The JIMF identification bar JIMF judges identification through an **open-economy lens**: the threat to causality usually comes from a *global* confounder (the global financial cycle, a common US monetary shock, world risk appetite) or from *policy endogeneity* (countries impose controls or intervene precisely when flows or the exchange rate move). State the data-to-object mapping in one sentence, then defend it against the international-specific confounder. Pick the branch. ### Branch A: High-frequency / surprise identification (FX, policy spillovers) - **Construct the surprise cleanly**: narrow event windows (intraday or daily)
- When to trigger
- The JIMF identification bar
- Branch A: High-frequency / surprise identification (FX, policy spillovers)
- Branch B: Cross-country panel causal design
- Branch C: Capital-control / FX-intervention natural experiment
- Branch D: Open-economy model / parameter identification
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- What this skill does not cover
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the identification fix
- Inference notes for cross-country international panels
- The push-pull decomposition, made explicit
What does the jimf-identification skill do?
Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript — open-economy causal designs, high-frequency policy/FX surprises, capital-control natural experiments, or parameter identification in an open-economy model. Stress-tests the strategy to JIMF's international-finance bar.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jimf-identification --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.