jmcb-writing-style
Use when the prose — abstract, introduction, and the policy framing — is the bottleneck for a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript. Makes the monetary/banking idea and its policy payoff land for a specialist-but-policy audience; it is a late-stage polish, not a substitute for fixing the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmcb-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 (jmcb-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The abstract states what you did but not what a central banker or regulator should conclude - The introduction reaches the contribution only on page three - The prose is technically correct but reads like a working paper, not a policy-relevant article - Results are described ("the coefficient is significant") rather than interpreted (what it means for transmission/policy) - The paper is at the 40-page cap and the writing is the place to recover space ## The JMCB voice JMCB readers are **monetary/banking specialists who also think in policy terms**. The house voice is precise about mechanism and institutions, explicit about magnitudes, and never loses the **policy payoff**. The best JMCB papers tell the reader, early and plainly, what a central bank or regulator should believe differently — and then back it with disciplined evidence. Avoid both extremes: the dense methods-paper voice that hides the policy point, and the loose op-ed voice that overstates it. Magnitudes, not just signs and stars, carry the message. ## The introduction (the highest-leverage page) Write the JMCB intro as a tight funnel — aim for roughly this arc
- When to trigger
- The JMCB voice
- The introduction (the highest-leverage page)
- The abstract
- Prose discipline
- Writing the results section for a policy reader
- Length as a writing discipline
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- The conclusion as a policy statement
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the jmcb-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose — abstract, introduction, and the policy framing — is the bottleneck for a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript. Makes the monetary/banking idea and its policy payoff land for a specialist-but-policy audience; it is a late-stage polish, not a substitute for fixing the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmcb-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.