jimf-writing-style
Use when the prose, intro, abstract, or Highlights of a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript do not land for an international-finance audience. Sharpens the writing and front matter; it does not change the result or the design.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jimf-writing-style --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.
# Writing Style (jimf-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The intro buries the international mechanism and the contribution under a literature tour - The abstract is over 250 words, vague, or does not state the headline number - Highlights and keywords are missing or generic (required for Elsevier submission) - The prose reads like a domestic-finance paper with international words sprinkled in - A policy reader (central bank / IMF / BIS) cannot extract the takeaway in one read ## The JIMF voice JIMF prose is **empirical, direct, and policy-aware**. It is not the model-first register of the theory journals nor the corporate-finance register of JFE; it is open-economy macro-finance written for an audience that includes both academics and policy economists. Lead with the international question and the answer; make the mechanism a noun the reader can hold (pass-through, spillover, push factor, the trilemma); and quantify the headline early. Write the abstract and intro last, after the design and robustness settle. ### The intro, JIMF-style (a five-move opening) 1. **The international question** in one or two sentences — frame it as open-economy, not domestic. 2. **Why it matters now**
- When to trigger
- The JIMF voice
- The intro, JIMF-style (a five-move opening)
- Abstract & front matter (Elsevier mechanics)
- When to invoke this skill (and when not to)
- Craft moves
- Writing for two audiences in one paper
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Vocabulary discipline (the international-finance register)
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the jimf-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose, intro, abstract, or Highlights of a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript do not land for an international-finance audience. Sharpens the writing and front matter; it does not change the result or the design.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jimf-writing-style --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.