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Positions a JFI manuscript by naming the closest intermediation papers and the mechanism gap it fills.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/jfi-skills:jfi-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- Writing or revising the introduction and related-work section for a JFI paper
JFI readers are banking and financial-intermediation specialists. Position the paper against the intermediation frontier — relationship lending and monitoring, liquidity transformation and runs, bank capital and regulation, credit supply and the lending channel, information asymmetry and screening, financial-contracting and security design — not against generic finance. Name the two to four closest papers and state the specific mechanism or margin you add, change, or overturn.
Distinguish your work from neighboring fields that JFI brushes against: pure asset pricing, pure corporate finance where banks are incidental, and macro-finance with no institutional channel. If your closest comparisons are all outside intermediation, that is a signal to recheck fit (see jfi-topic-selection).
| Your mechanism | Canonical anchors to position against |
|---|---|
| Runs, liquidity transformation | Diamond–Dybvig; Calomiris–Kahn; Goldstein–Pauzner |
| Delegated monitoring / screening | Diamond (1984); Holmström–Tirole (1997) |
| Relationship lending | Petersen–Rajan; Boot's JFI survey; Berger–Udell |
| Credit-supply identification | Khwaja–Mian within-firm designs and their register successors |
| Deposits and franchise value | The Drechsler–Savov–Schnabl deposits-channel line |
| Securitization / security design | Gorton–Pennacchi |
| Banking-theory synthesis | Bhattacharya–Thakor's JFI survey |
Anchors establish fluency; the working-paper frontier on top of them establishes that you know where the intermediation conversation currently sits. Both layers belong in the introduction.
"Khwaja and Mian identify the lending channel from liquidity shocks; subsequent credit-register studies trace its crisis transmission. We differ on the mechanism margin: our data let us show the cut concentrates where the bank's information monopoly is strongest — which delegated-monitoring models predict and pure balance-sheet models do not." Three sentences: closest papers, design delta, theory separation. That is a complete JFI positioning paragraph; everything else is supporting cast.
As a calibration (reading-based, hedged): related-work discussion in accepted JFI papers tends to be woven into the introduction rather than parked in a long standalone section — two to three paragraphs of contrast, with the survey-style material, if any, moved to a footnote or an appendix. Theory papers add one paragraph locating the friction within banking theory (e.g., relative to the Bhattacharya–Thakor or Diamond lineages) so the referee can see which modeling tradition is being extended.
【Closest papers】2–4, each with its result + method
【Your delta】the mechanism/margin you add or overturn
【Field boundary】why this is intermediation, not adjacent finance
【Next skill】jfi-identification-strategy
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jfi-skillsPositions a Journal of Banking & Finance manuscript against banking, intermediation, corporate finance, investments, regulation, and capital-market literatures to state a precise contribution.
Builds a sharp positioning argument for JFE manuscripts whose related-work section reads as a list and lacks clear marginal contribution relative to the top-3 finance frontier.
Positions a JFQA manuscript against the finance literature to clarify its contribution. Use when drafting the related-work section for corporate finance, asset pricing, microstructure, or institutions papers.