From jfe-skills
Routes users to specialized jfe-* skills for sequencing JFE manuscript work from topic selection to rebuttal. Decides which skill to invoke next based on current stage.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jfe-skills:jfe-workflowThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
This is the router. It does not do the work of any specialized skill; it tells you **which jfe-* skill to use at the current stage** of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript.
This is the router. It does not do the work of any specialized skill; it tells you which jfe- skill to use at the current stage* of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript.
Default assumption: unless you say the target is a different outlet, work to JFE's culture — nuts-and-bolts methodological rigor, exhaustive robustness, and credible identification. JFE papers are typically more technical, longer, and more robustness-heavy than JF, and the referee culture rewards thoroughness over a single clever result.
JFE at a glance (verify on jfinec.com): Elsevier/North-Holland, ISSN 0304-405X, founded 1974 by Michael C. Jensen; Editor-in-Chief Toni M. Whited (Michigan) with co-editors at Kellogg, Wharton, and NYU Stern; submit via editorialmanager.com/finec with a US$850 fee (discounted by referee-earned submission rights; no fee on R&R); 100-word abstract, double-spaced author-date format; mandatory code + non-proprietary-data deposit to Mendeley Data for post-2021 submissions; the Jensen Prize (corp fin) and Fama-DFA Prize (asset pricing) are its best-paper awards.
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Idea is vague; unsure it clears the JFE contribution bar | jfe-topic-selection |
| Related-work section is a list; unclear how you differ from JF/RFS | jfe-literature-positioning |
| Empirics are OLS + controls; identification is undefended | jfe-identification |
| Design choices unsettled (factor construction, estimator, SE, GMM) | jfe-empirical-design |
| Main result exists but is fragile / under-stressed | jfe-robustness |
| Tables overloaded; figures unclear; not JFE house style | jfe-tables-figures |
| Robustness, proofs, and extra tests are crowding the main text | jfe-internet-appendix |
| Prose is vague, hedged, or buries the contribution | jfe-writing-style |
| Ready to submit; need a preflight checklist | jfe-submission |
| Want to anticipate and pre-empt likely referee objections | jfe-referee-strategy |
| Received an R&R and need to write the response | jfe-rebuttal |
jfe-topic-selection — lock the contribution and economic questionjfe-literature-positioning — situate against the top-3 finance frontierjfe-identification — make the causal/inference design defensiblejfe-empirical-design — factor construction, estimators, standard errors, GMMjfe-robustness — stress every result until it does not breakjfe-tables-figures — finalize main exhibitsjfe-internet-appendix — move proofs and supplementary tests off the main textjfe-writing-style — polish prose to JFE registerjfe-submission — pre-submission preflightjfe-referee-strategy — pre-empt objections before and during reviewjfe-rebuttal — after the R&R
jfe-writing-styleand parts ofjfe-tables-figuresare late-stage polish. Do not burn effort there while identification or the core design is still unsettled — JFE referees will not be charmed by clean tables sitting on a weak design.
jfe-topic-selectionjfe-literature-positioningjfe-identificationjfe-empirical-designjfe-robustnessjfe-tables-figuresjfe-internet-appendixjfe-submissionjfe-referee-strategyjfe-rebuttalJFE is published by Elsevier and is editor-driven (Whited + co-editors), unlike JF (American Finance Association, Wiley) and RFS (Society for Financial Studies, Oxford UP) — so the fee structure, the finec Editorial Manager portal, and the masthead are all JFE-specific; do not recycle a JF/RFS cover letter. If the paper is a shorter, idea-forward piece where a single clean result carries the day, the JF stack may fit better; if it leans heavily on theory or method, the RFS stack may fit better. The core JFE difference: referees reward methodological thoroughness and exhaustive robustness, the Internet Appendix is expected to be deep and is appended to the main file, and the US$850 fee plus referee-earned submission rights shape the whole submission economy. Verify each journal's current scope on its official page.
jfe-literature-positioning and jump to identification — referees first ask "why is this not already known?"jfe-tables-figures beautify exhibits while the design is still contestedjfe-rebuttal draft a response letter before you have actually revised the manuscript and re-run the affected resultsnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jfe-skillsRoutes manuscript workflow for The Journal of Finance (JF) from topic selection through rebuttal. Use to decide which specialized jf-* skill to invoke next.
Routes a Journal of Financial Intermediation manuscript through its lifecycle, directing theory-led vs. empirics-led papers to the appropriate jfi-* skills.
Routes manuscript work for The Review of Financial Studies: tells which rfs-* sub-skill to invoke next based on the current bottleneck (novelty, identification, writing, etc.).