From jbf-skills
Polishes Journal of Banking & Finance manuscripts — sharpens prose, translates coefficients into economics, structures results paragraphs, and prepares references and metadata for Elsevier/JBF submission.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/jbf-skills:jbf-writing-styleThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The manuscript is technically complete but reads slowly
Table X tests [claim]. Column (Y) includes [fixed effects/controls] and clusters
standard errors by [level]. A one-standard-deviation increase in [treatment] is
associated with [magnitude] change in [outcome], equal to [economic benchmark].
The estimate is robust to [key check], supporting [mechanism].
A JBF-ready abstract typically runs four to six sentences: question, setting and data, design, headline magnitude in finance units, and one bounded implication. The current Guide caps the abstract at 250 words.
[Question] Does X friction change Y bank/market outcome?
[Setting] data + period + unit (e.g., bank-quarter Call Reports, 2005-2019)
[Design] the variation in one clause (staggered adoption / threshold / exposure)
[Result] magnitude with units (basis points, pp of assets, capital-ratio points)
[Implication] one sentence, inside the identified margin
Before: "The coefficient on the regulation dummy is negative and significant at the 1% level, confirming our hypothesis."
After: "Following adoption, treated banks cut commercial lending by 0.9 percentage points of assets (illustrative), about one quarter of average pre-period loan growth, consistent with a liquidity-hoarding channel and concentrated among banks below the median deposit franchise."
The rewrite names the unit, the benchmark, the mechanism, and the heterogeneity in one sentence — the cadence JBF results sections reward.
Use this pattern for every headline result:
In [sample/design], [shock or treatment] changes [finance outcome] by [magnitude in finance units],
relative to [benchmark], consistent with [mechanism] and bounded by [main limitation].
This prevents significance-only prose and forces the mechanism into the result paragraph.
[Section] abstract / introduction / data / results / conclusion
[Main edit] ...
[Magnitude wording] ...
[Claim boundary] ...
[Submission polish] keywords / optional JEL / highlights / declarations
[Next step] jbf-submission
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jbf-skillsRevises Journal of Financial Intermediation manuscripts to match house conventions: numbered sections, author-date Elsevier referencing, concise abstract, and mechanism-first prose.
Polishes JFE manuscript prose to be precise, evidence-forward, and free of hedging or overclaiming. Improves introduction structure and sentence discipline.
Polishes Journal of Finance manuscripts for general-interest exposition, tightening introductions and trimming hedging for the broad AFA readership.