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Guides causal-inference and asset-pricing identification for RFS manuscripts, stress-testing quasi-experimental designs (DID, IV, RDD, event study) and factor-model identification before drafting results.
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- The empirical core is OLS + controls with an open endogeneity threat
RFS applies the same high causal-inference standard as JF and JFE: a claim of causality requires a credible source of exogenous variation, not a richer control set. RFS is more receptive than the others to genuinely new questions and to structural / theoretical identification — but novelty never substitutes for a clean design. Pick the strongest feasible strategy below.
RFS-specific lever — Stage 1 design review. Because RFS pioneered Registered Reports (pre-results review; Karolyi, "Kick-Starting the Review Process," RFS 27(2), 2014), an identification strategy can be refereed before the results exist. If you pursue this route, the design must be airtight on paper: pre-specified sample, treatment definition, estimator, diagnostics, and the exact tables to be produced — because that protocol becomes the binding commitment that earns in-principle acceptance. Even for a standard submission, draft the design as if it had to survive Stage 1 review with no results to fall back on.
rfs-robustness).【Strategy】DID / RDD / IV / event study / asset-pricing / structural
【Source of variation】one sentence
【Diagnostics done】[parallel trends, density, first-stage F, SE choice, ...]
【Missing diagnostics】[...]
【SE structure】...
【Next step】rfs-empirical-design
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Stress-tests causal identification strategies (natural experiments, IV, DID, RDD) for empirical corporate finance papers targeting The Journal of Finance.