Skill UI

This specialized coach provides comprehensive guidance for finance professionals, covering diverse fields such as investment banking, private equity, asset management, and fintech. It teaches core technical skills (DCF, LBO, 3-statement modeling) and prepares users for rigorous industry recruiting, including case studies and technical interviews. It addresses both Chinese and global financial markets, helping users strategically navigate career barriers and build professional expertise.

A comprehensive guide for authors on how to structure the literature review and introduction of academic papers, especially in banking and finance. It teaches how to precisely identify and articulate a unique contribution ('delta') relative to the closest existing literature, ensuring the paper is seen as a specialized advancement rather than a generic survey.

A comprehensive guide detailing the editorial pipeline for the Journal of Banking & Finance (JBF). It explains the initial desk screen, double-anonymized refereeing process, the role of submission fees, and how to interpret status updates in Editorial Manager. Essential for authors submitting finance and banking manuscripts.

This guide helps researchers evaluate whether their finance manuscript is suitable for top-tier academic journals like the Journal of Banking & Finance (JBF). It provides a detailed framework to check for institutional content, rigorous empirical design, external relevance, and the potential to significantly change prior assumptions, while also offering routing advice to alternative specialized venues.

This comprehensive style guide optimizes financial manuscripts for high-impact academic journals, such as the Journal of Banking & Finance (JBF). It teaches authors to structure arguments by leading with the core financial question, translating statistical coefficients into interpretable economic units (e.g., basis points, asset ratios), and ensuring every claim is bounded and highly concise. Essential for refining abstracts, results sections, and introductions.

This skill guides researchers in assessing whether a manuscript's core contribution centers on banking, financial intermediation, or market frictions. It helps determine the research's scope, guiding decisions on whether the paper is theory-led (models of friction) or empirics-led (causal designs on credit data). Use this to maximize publication chances in specialized finance journals.

This guide teaches authors how to precisely position their academic contribution within existing specialized literature, particularly in finance and banking. It moves beyond vague claims by anchoring the work to canonical economic mechanisms and distinguishing the specific 'delta' (new shocks, frictions, or datasets). Mastering this skill ensures the manuscript clearly articulates its unique value and policy relevance to experts.

A comprehensive guide for academics preparing manuscripts for top-tier journals (e.g., JMCB). It helps authors anticipate specialized critiques from monetary, banking, and structural economists by identifying predictable weaknesses, strengthening the core arguments, and pre-emptively addressing common methodological and scope-related objections before official submission.

A comprehensive guide for economists and researchers on determining if their work concerning monetary policy, banking, credit, or macro-finance is a suitable fit for the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB). It teaches how to structure arguments, identify clear policy stakes, and differentiate the unique scope of JMCB from similar academic outlets.

This skill provides a comprehensive guide for authors submitting applied empirical research in banking and finance. It helps evaluate a manuscript's fit, required framing, methodological rigor, and adherence to house style for target journals like the Journal of Banking and Finance (JBF). It serves as a crucial pre-submission self-check tool, advising on scope, potential weaknesses, and suggesting alternative, more suitable venues.