jfe-workflow
GitHubJFE论文工作流路由器，根据当前阶段（如选题、实证、写作或返修）推荐对应的专用子技能，确保遵循JFE严谨的方法论和投稿规范。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfe-workflow -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "jfe-workflow",
"description": "Use when deciding which jfe-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills."
}
JFE Workflow Router (jfe-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It does not do the work of any specialized skill; it tells you which jfe- skill to use at the current stage* of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript.
Default assumption: unless you say the target is a different outlet, work to JFE's culture — nuts-and-bolts methodological rigor, exhaustive robustness, and credible identification. JFE papers are typically more technical, longer, and more robustness-heavy than JF, and the referee culture rewards thoroughness over a single clever result.
JFE at a glance (verify on jfinec.com): Elsevier/North-Holland, ISSN 0304-405X, founded 1974 by Michael C. Jensen; Editor-in-Chief Toni M. Whited (Michigan) with co-editors at Kellogg, Wharton, and NYU Stern; submit via editorialmanager.com/finec with a US$850 fee (discounted by referee-earned submission rights; no fee on R&R); 100-word abstract, double-spaced author-date format; mandatory code + non-proprietary-data deposit to Mendeley Data for post-2021 submissions; the Jensen Prize (corp fin) and Fama-DFA Prize (asset pricing) are its best-paper awards.
When to trigger
- You ask "what should I do next?" on a JFE-bound paper
- You hand over a draft and need the current bottleneck diagnosed
- You keep bouncing between empirics, writing, and the response letter and have lost the thread
- You received a JFE decision letter and need to switch into revision mode
Routing table
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Idea is vague; unsure it clears the JFE contribution bar | jfe-topic-selection |
| Related-work section is a list; unclear how you differ from JF/RFS | jfe-literature-positioning |
| Empirics are OLS + controls; identification is undefended | jfe-identification |
| Design choices unsettled (factor construction, estimator, SE, GMM) | jfe-empirical-design |
| Main result exists but is fragile / under-stressed | jfe-robustness |
| Tables overloaded; figures unclear; not JFE house style | jfe-tables-figures |
| Robustness, proofs, and extra tests are crowding the main text | jfe-internet-appendix |
| Prose is vague, hedged, or buries the contribution | jfe-writing-style |
| Ready to submit; need a preflight checklist | jfe-submission |
| Want to anticipate and pre-empt likely referee objections | jfe-referee-strategy |
| Received an R&R and need to write the response | jfe-rebuttal |
Default order
jfe-topic-selection— lock the contribution and economic questionjfe-literature-positioning— situate against the top-3 finance frontierjfe-identification— make the causal/inference design defensiblejfe-empirical-design— factor construction, estimators, standard errors, GMMjfe-robustness— stress every result until it does not breakjfe-tables-figures— finalize main exhibitsjfe-internet-appendix— move proofs and supplementary tests off the main textjfe-writing-style— polish prose to JFE registerjfe-submission— pre-submission preflightjfe-referee-strategy— pre-empt objections before and during reviewjfe-rebuttal— after the R&R
jfe-writing-styleand parts ofjfe-tables-figuresare late-stage polish. Do not burn effort there while identification or the core design is still unsettled — JFE referees will not be charmed by clean tables sitting on a weak design.
Bottleneck triage card
Answer the questions in order and stop at the first "no" — that is the skill to invoke now. Everything below the first "no" is premature polish.
JFE bottleneck triage — run top to bottom, stop at first "no"
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Q1 Can you state the contribution in one sentence a co-editor
would care about? no -> jfe-topic-selection
Q2 Does related work say why JF/RFS haven't already covered it?
no -> jfe-literature-positioning
Q3 Would the identification survive a hostile referee report?
(staggered-DID bias addressed? instrument defended?)
no -> jfe-identification
Q4 Are factor construction, estimator, SEs, and GMM choices
settled and justified? no -> jfe-empirical-design
Q5 Does the result survive the obvious alternative specs a
thorough JFE referee will run? no -> jfe-robustness
Q6 Are main exhibits readable and in JFE house style?
no -> jfe-tables-figures
Q7 Are proofs and extra tests offloaded to the Internet Appendix?
no -> jfe-internet-appendix
Q8 Is the prose at JFE register, contribution up front,
abstract at 100 words? no -> jfe-writing-style
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All yes -> jfe-submission (editorialmanager.com/finec preflight: fee,
Mendeley Data code/data deposit), then jfe-referee-strategy.
Decision letter arrived -> revise first, then jfe-rebuttal.
Decision shortcuts
- "I have data but no sharp economic question" ->
jfe-topic-selection - "Related work doesn't say why JF or RFS wouldn't already cover this" ->
jfe-literature-positioning - "DID is two-way FE with staggered adoption and I haven't addressed the bias" ->
jfe-identification - "I sort on a characteristic but haven't justified the factor or the breakpoints" ->
jfe-empirical-design - "Result holds in the baseline but I haven't tried obvious alternative specs" ->
jfe-robustness - "Main table has 12 columns and no one can read it" ->
jfe-tables-figures - "Referee will want 20 extra tables I can't fit" ->
jfe-internet-appendix - "Submitting this week" ->
jfe-submission - "Reviewer 2 will ask about endogeneity / multiple testing" ->
jfe-referee-strategy - "Got three referee reports back" ->
jfe-rebuttal
Differences vs. the JF and RFS stacks
JFE is published by Elsevier and is editor-driven (Whited + co-editors), unlike JF (American Finance Association, Wiley) and RFS (Society for Financial Studies, Oxford UP) — so the fee structure, the finec Editorial Manager portal, and the masthead are all JFE-specific; do not recycle a JF/RFS cover letter. If the paper is a shorter, idea-forward piece where a single clean result carries the day, the JF stack may fit better; if it leans heavily on theory or method, the RFS stack may fit better. The core JFE difference: referees reward methodological thoroughness and exhaustive robustness, the Internet Appendix is expected to be deep and is appended to the main file, and the US$850 fee plus referee-earned submission rights shape the whole submission economy. Verify each journal's current scope on its official page.
Anti-patterns
- Do not skip
jfe-literature-positioningand jump to identification — referees first ask "why is this not already known?" - Do not let
jfe-tables-figuresbeautify exhibits while the design is still contested - Do not let
jfe-rebuttaldraft a response letter before you have actually revised the manuscript and re-run the affected results
Version History
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