From jfqa-skills
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.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jfqa-skills:jfqa-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Use this skill to locate a **JFQA** manuscript against the finance literature so the contribution is unmistakable to the reviewers and the assigned Managing Editor.
Use this skill to locate a JFQA manuscript against the finance literature so the contribution is unmistakable to the reviewers and the assigned Managing Editor.
Use a three-paragraph related-work move:
Do not give every subfield equal space. JFQA reviewers need to see that the paper is new in the exact finance conversation where it asks to be judged.
Question: do share repurchases still earn abnormal returns once institutional crowding is measured?
That sentence — rival's number, this paper's number, the economic reinterpretation — is the positioning JFQA reviewers reward. If you cannot write its analogue for your paper, the gap is not yet sharp.
| Referee phrasing | Diagnosis | Repair |
|---|---|---|
| "This is already known from [X]" | the killer rival was not confronted | add the explicit contrast and the quantitative delta |
| "The literature review is a list" | citations grouped, not argued | rewrite as the three-paragraph compression above |
| "Novelty claim is too strong" | "first to" without a defense | narrow the claim to the exact sample/design/measure that is new |
| "Wrong conversation" | positioned in economics, not finance | re-anchor to the finance subfield and its open quantitative question |
【Subfield frontier】corporate / investments / microstructure / institutions
【Closest rivals】2-4 papers + the one-line contrast each
【Gap】the specific unanswered quantitative question
【Our contribution】one sentence, defensible
【Next step】jfqa-identification-strategy
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jfqa-skillsPositions a Journal of Finance manuscript by writing a crisp contribution paragraph that names the closest papers and states the specific delta. Use when the related-work section is a chronological list or the intro fails to state what is new.
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 Journal of Banking & Finance manuscript against banking, intermediation, corporate finance, investments, regulation, and capital-market literatures to state a precise contribution.