From jfi-skills
Explains the Journal of Financial Intermediation's editorial process: desk-rejection policy, single-blind review, limited appeals, and Managing Editor selection. Sets expectations for authors.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/jfi-skills:jfi-review-processThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- Before submission, to calibrate expectations on timing, odds, and what "single-blind" implies
| Pattern | Why JFI's screen catches it |
|---|---|
| Correlational bank-panel paper with no design | Empirics here must discipline a mechanism, not document an association |
| Banks as a setting, not the subject | Intermediation must be load-bearing (see jfi-topic-selection) |
| Pure asset pricing or corporate finance | Outside the journal's home ground, however polished |
| Policy commentary without an economic model or design | The journal publishes research, not assessment notes |
| Mechanism buried past page 3 | Triage reads the abstract and introduction only |
As reading-based calibration, not stated policy: surviving empirical papers pair a tight introduction with an identification section that confronts demand-side confounds head-on, a main table plus a dynamics figure, and robustness in an appendix; theory papers carry propositions in the text, proofs in an appendix, and often a numerical illustration of the mechanism. Timelines and acceptance shares are not published in a form this skill will quote — confirm against the journal's current author guidelines and recent issues rather than secondhand statistics. A practical proxy: skim the latest two issues and note how quickly each paper states its intermediation mechanism; that is the de facto screen you must match. Note also which sub-literatures the current issues carry — a venue actively publishing fintech and shadow-banking work signals appetite beyond traditional bank-balance-sheet papers.
【Desk-screen risk】<what could trip the screen + fix>
【Referee plan】likely-one-expert objection + pre-empt
【Editor choice】request Murillo Campello / Elena Loutskina / Joao Santos by fit, or default
【Decision posture】appeal exceptional; win up front
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