jimf-literature-positioning

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jimf-literature-positioning --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Literature Positioning (jimf-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The intro lists related work but never says what this paper does that the frontier does not - A referee writes "this is close to [Rey on the global financial cycle / Gopinath on dominant currency / Miranda-Agrippino-Rey on spillovers] — what is new?" - The contribution reads as "we extend X to country Y / sample Z" rather than a new object - The paper could be read as a JIE, JME, or JFE contribution and the JIMF claim is not staked ## How JIMF expects positioning to be built JIMF is a field journal, so positioning is judged against the **international monetary-finance literature specifically**, not all of macro or all of finance. The bar is: name the closest two or three papers, state the precise margin on which you move past them, and show the margin matters for an open-economy question. The frontier clusters into recognizable programs — the global financial cycle and the trilemma/dilemma debate; dominant-currency pricing and exchange-rate pass-through; monetary-policy spillovers and the international transmission channel; capital-flow push vs. pull and the literature on capital controls / FX intervention;