From jfe-skills
Scopes and pressure-tests a research question for Journal of Financial Economics manuscripts before data work begins.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jfe-skills:jfe-topic-selectionThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- You have data or a setting but no sharp economic question yet
JFE (Elsevier; North-Holland; ISSN 0304-405X; founded 1974 by Michael C. Jensen) is one of the top-3 finance journals and publishes rigorous, methodologically demanding empirical corporate finance and asset pricing, plus the financial-economics theory that supports them. Its stated scope centers on capital markets, financial institutions, corporate finance, corporate governance, and the economics of organizations. The durable preference: a clean economic question, answered with a credible design and exhaustive evidence.
The two JFE best-paper prizes signal the two halves of the journal's taste: the Jensen Prize (best corporate-finance / organizations paper) and the Fama-DFA Prize (best asset-pricing / capital-markets paper). Aim a JFE submission at the kind of paper that could plausibly compete for one of them. (Editor-in-Chief Toni M. Whited, Michigan, since 2021; verify current scope on jfinec.com.)
Fit test — answer all four before proceeding:
jfe-identification, jfe-empirical-design)? If the honest answer is "OLS with controls," the topic is not ready.State the contribution as 2–4 explicit sentences for the introduction:
Reminder: a famous result is not automatically a JFE result. Carhart (1997) momentum-persistence is a Journal of Finance paper, not JFE — do not position against it as if it were the JFE house lineage.
【Question】one-sentence economic question
【Contribution】gap / move / finding / why-it-matters
【Field】corporate finance | asset pricing | financial-economics theory
【Closest papers】[...] and how this differs
【Identification path】sketch (or "not yet — see jfe-identification")
【Fit verdict】JFE | JF | RFS | not ready
【Next】jfe-literature-positioning
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jfe-skillsUse when judging whether a research question is general-interest and economically significant enough for The Journal of Finance (JF), and when sharpening the framing. Tests fit and contribution; it does not design the empirics.
Helps decide if a finance manuscript fits the Journal of Finance, encoding fit, framing, method bar, house style, and desk-reject heuristics.
Evaluates whether a corporate-finance question fits the Journal of Corporate Finance and chooses between full-length or shorter format paper.