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This guide helps academics determine if their research contribution is fundamentally about market microstructure—such as order flow, liquidity, price impact, or trading mechanisms—making it suitable for the Journal of Financial Markets (JFM). It provides a rigorous 'mechanism question' test to distinguish between microstructural findings and broader corporate or asset pricing issues.

This guide teaches researchers how to structure and articulate the contribution of a mathematical finance manuscript. It advises authors to move beyond simply proving a theorem, instead focusing on framing the methodological novelty and its direct payoff to financial modeling problems like pricing, hedging, risk management, and portfolio choice. It ensures the paper is seen as relevant to practitioners, not just mathematicians.

This guide teaches required skills for positioning mathematical finance research papers. It instructs authors on how to structure the literature review to clearly demonstrate methodological novelty by comparing their theorem precisely against existing results in stochastic analysis, pricing, and control theory. Focus must be on theorem-level contribution, not merely topic surveys.