journal-of-empirical-finance
Use when targeting Journal of Empirical Finance (JEF) or deciding whether an empirical-finance / financial-econometrics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-empirical-finance --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.
# Journal of Empirical Finance (journal-of-empirical-finance) ## Journal positioning The Journal of Empirical Finance is an Elsevier journal specializing in empirical finance methods and applications: the econometrics of finance, asset pricing, volatility modeling, return predictability, and the careful empirical analysis of financial data. It sits in the strong field tier with a methods-aware identity, and is the natural home for papers where the empirical method or measurement is itself a contribution. The readership is empirical and financial-econometrics researchers. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Elsevier / JEF site and the editorial submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names JEF (or empirical-finance / financial-econometrics venues) as the target. - A paper's contribution is an empirical method, a measurement, or a careful empirical analysis of returns, volatility, or predictability. - A general finance paper has a methods-of-empirical-finance core that should be framed as such. - The author needs
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the journal-of-empirical-finance skill do?
Use when targeting Journal of Empirical Finance (JEF) or deciding whether an empirical-finance / financial-econometrics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-empirical-finance --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.