jmcb-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a monetary, banking, credit, or macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling, and how to frame its policy stakes. Locks the question and outlet fit; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmcb-topic-selection --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.
# Topic Selection (jmcb-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a result on monetary policy, banking, credit, or macro-finance and are unsure JMCB is the right home - The paper could plausibly go to the Journal of Monetary Economics, AEJ:Macro, RED, or JBF and you need to pick - A referee or coauthor questioned whether the question is "JMCB enough" — too narrow-finance, too pure-theory, or no policy hook - The contribution is technically sound but the *policy stakes* are unstated ## What JMCB actually wants JMCB is the OSU/Wiley monetary-and-banking outlet that **bridges policy and the macro-financial system**. Founded in 1969 and long associated with the Ohio State University Department of Economics, it has historically prized work that a central bank, regulator, or financial-stability authority would find usable. The papers that land here share three traits: (1) the object of study is **money, credit, banks, or the monetary/financial-policy machinery** — not corporate finance or asset pricing for its own sake; (2) there is a **clear policy or institutional payoff** — a decision-maker would care about the answer; (3) the method is **either** a quantitative monetary/banking
- When to trigger
- What JMCB actually wants
- Sibling boundary — pick the right outlet before you write the intro
- A four-question fit screen
- Topics that fit, and how to angle marginal ones
- Scoping feasibility before you commit
- Quick desk-reject screen
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Lock the question in one sentence before moving on
- Output format
What does the jmcb-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a monetary, banking, credit, or macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling, and how to frame its policy stakes. Locks the question and outlet fit; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmcb-topic-selection --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.