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This strategy guides the rigorous writing of theoretical economics papers, emulating the standards of a Journal of Economic Theory (JET). It ensures that all assumptions are explicit and load-bearing, results are cleanly stated theorems, and proofs have a visible, expert-verifiable architecture. Use this when submitting a high-level theoretical paper where credibility relies on minimizing assumptions and maximizing procedural transparency for expert review.

A comprehensive guide for creating rigorous, schematic exhibits (figures and tables) for highly theoretical journals, such as the Journal of Economic Theory (JET). Focuses on best practices for visualizing concepts like best-response diagrams, phase spaces, lattices, and information flows using vector graphics (TikZ/PDF), ensuring strict adherence to published notation and maximizing proof clarity.

This guide helps researchers assess whether their empirical work or research question possesses sufficient breadth, economic magnitude, and general-interest appeal to be suitable for top-tier, flagship finance journals like the Journal of Finance (JF). It focuses on sharpening the contribution's framing and determining its reach across various subfields, rather than conducting the empirical analysis itself.

This guide details how to properly structure an Internet Appendix for academic manuscripts, particularly tailored for the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE). It instructs authors on separating exhaustive proofs, secondary robustness tests, detailed derivations, and supplementary results from the main body text. Mastering this skill ensures the manuscript maintains high scientific rigor while remaining highly readable and adhering to specific journal formatting standards.

This comprehensive guide provides a detailed preflight checklist for authors submitting manuscripts to major academic finance journals, such as JFM via Elsevier Editorial Manager. It covers critical steps including double-blind anonymization techniques, structuring data availability statements for proprietary feeds, adhering to CRediT contribution standards, and crafting effective cover letters. Use this guide before the final upload to ensure compliance with complex journal requirements and maximize acceptance chances.

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.

A comprehensive guide to framing the contribution of a quantitative finance paper for highly selective journals like JFQA. It emphasizes extreme conciseness (e.g., 100-word abstract constraint) and the mandatory inclusion of explicit, measurable economic magnitudes (e.g., basis points, alpha changes) to ensure the research meets top-tier academic standards.

This comprehensive guide helps academics transform raw financial data observations into rigorous and high-impact research questions suitable for top-tier finance journals. It teaches a structured methodology involving anchoring the core financial mechanism, integrating specific institutional contexts within China, and defining a clear incremental academic contribution.

This guide provides detailed structural and stylistic rules for polishing academic manuscripts intended for high-impact journals, such as the Journal of Human Resources (JHR). It instructs authors on structuring the abstract, writing results paragraphs, translating coefficients into policy-relevant units, and compressing long-form content to adhere to strict page limits, ensuring the core policy lesson is immediately visible.

Provides comprehensive guidelines on structuring and formatting academic exhibits (tables and figures) for international finance and macroeconomics submissions. It ensures that the main findings (headline coefficients) are immediately clear, adhering to best practices for cross-country panels, event studies, and heterogeneity displays.

This guide provides detailed instructions for polishing academic manuscripts intended for top-tier international finance journals. It teaches authors to adopt an empirical, direct, and policy-aware voice, structuring the introduction, abstract, and highlights to highlight the international question and quantifiable policy implications, ensuring appeal to both academics and central bank policy readers.

A comprehensive guide on structuring robustness checks for academic papers, particularly for Law, Economics, and Organization journals. Instead of simply listing additional tables, this method teaches how to organize checks by specific theoretical threats (selection bias, endogeneity, measurement error, alternative mechanisms) to strengthen the core institutional claim and anticipate referee criticism.