imfer-workflow
GitHubIMFER论文投稿流程路由器，根据稿件当前阶段或瓶颈（如选题、识别、稳健性、写作等）推荐对应的imfer-*子技能，辅助完成从选题到回复审稿意见的全流程。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-workflow -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "imfer-workflow",
"description": "Use when deciding which imfer-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills."
}
IMFER Workflow Router (imfer-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It tells you which imfer- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at IMF Economic Review (IMFER) — the International Monetary Fund's flagship scholarly journal, published by Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature for the IMF, and the successor to IMF Staff Papers. IMFER's center of gravity is international macroeconomics and finance with strong policy relevance: exchange rates and capital flows, global imbalances, financial crises and contagion, sovereign debt, monetary and fiscal policy in open economies, IMF-program-relevant questions, and international spillovers. A distinctive pipeline is the Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference (ARC), whose papers often appear as IMFER special issues.
Operational tells you are at IMFER and not a sibling or generic field journal: the audience is part academic, part policy/institutional — a referee reads as both a frontier researcher and someone who could brief an IMF mission; review is double-blind (anonymize the main file); house style is the Chicago Manual of Style with American spelling; the abstract is italicized and JEL codes are required. Editor-in-chief as of 2026: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the Springer Nature IMFER pages.
When to trigger
- The user asks "what should I do next?" on an IMFER-bound paper
- A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed (fit, design, theory, evidence, exhibits, style, submission)
- Work is ping-ponging between identification, the model, robustness, and the policy framing
- An IMFER decision letter arrived and the user must switch into revision mode
- The team is weighing IMFER against JIE, JIMF, JMCB, or Economic Policy
Routing table
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Question feels narrow / not clearly international-macro with policy relevance | imfer-topic-selection |
| Contribution vs. JIE / JIMF / the IMF research frontier is fuzzy | imfer-literature-positioning |
| Cross-country causal design or policy-surprise identification is shaky | imfer-identification |
| The open-economy model / mechanism is loose or disconnected from the data | imfer-theory-model |
| Results may be specification-, sample-, or country-composition-sensitive | imfer-robustness |
| Exhibits are dense; significance asterisks still present; country coverage opaque | imfer-tables-figures |
| Prose buries the policy implication; abstract/intro do not land for a mixed audience | imfer-writing-style |
| Data, restricted IMF/central-bank paths, and code need packaging | imfer-replication-package |
| Likely objections should be war-gamed before submission | imfer-referee-strategy |
| Ready to submit via Editorial Manager; need a preflight | imfer-submission |
| An R&R arrived; need a response-letter strategy | imfer-rebuttal |
Default order
imfer-topic-selection— lock the international-macro question with a policy hookimfer-literature-positioning— stake the contribution vs. JIE/JIMF and the IMF frontierimfer-identification— cross-country / high-frequency / crisis-event identificationimfer-theory-model— open-economy model that disciplines or interprets the estimateimfer-robustness— specification, sample, and country-composition stabilityimfer-tables-figures— exhibits with transparent country coverage, no asterisksimfer-writing-style— make the idea land for the dual academic/policy audience (intro last)imfer-replication-package— assemble the data/code package with restricted-data pathsimfer-referee-strategy— anticipate the dual-referee objectionsimfer-submission— Editorial Manager double-blind preflightimfer-rebuttal— after the R&R
imfer-writing-styleis a late polish; do not rewrite the intro before identification, the model, and robustness settle.
Routing by paper archetype
IMFER spans several international-macro branches; the binding constraint differs by archetype.
| Archetype | Likely first bottleneck | Enter at |
|---|---|---|
| cross-country panel (capital flows, debt, crises) | country composition + spillover identification | imfer-identification → imfer-robustness |
| high-frequency policy-surprise (monetary/FX, spillovers) | clean surprise series + exclusion | imfer-identification |
| open-economy DSGE / international-finance model | parameter identification + counterfactual validity | imfer-theory-model → imfer-identification |
| crisis event study / narrative | event windows + confounding macro shocks | imfer-identification → imfer-robustness |
| ARC / special-issue invited paper | sharpening the policy contribution to the issue theme | imfer-topic-selection → imfer-literature-positioning |
Worked routing example (illustrative)
A user says: "My cross-country panel shows capital-flow controls dampen crisis risk, but a referee says the result is driven by a handful of Asian economies and the controls are endogenous to the crisis." That is two distinct IMFER pushbacks — country-composition fragility (owned by imfer-robustness) and policy endogeneity (owned by imfer-identification). Route to identification first to defend the design, then to robustness to show the effect survives dropping the Asian bloc; only once the coefficient is stable do you return to imfer-tables-figures and imfer-rebuttal.
Anti-patterns
- Treating IMFER like JIE (pure international trade/finance theory-and-empirics, less policy framing) or JIMF (broader, faster, less selective)
- Polishing prose before identification, the model, and robustness are stable
- Letting the online appendix carry a claim the main text must establish
- Forgetting the policy "so what" — a clean estimate with no IMF-relevant implication reads as the wrong journal
- Leaving author-identifying traces in a double-blind main file
Minimal decision snippet
if decision_letter_arrived: -> imfer-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit: -> imfer-submission
elif anticipating_referees: -> imfer-referee-strategy
elif data_code_packaging: -> imfer-replication-package
elif exhibits_or_significance: -> imfer-tables-figures
elif results_fragile: -> imfer-robustness
elif model_loose: -> imfer-theory-model
elif identification_shaky: -> imfer-identification
elif claim_or_positioning_fuzzy: -> imfer-contribution / imfer-literature-positioning
else: -> imfer-topic-selection
Version History
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