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This guide instructs authors on crafting highly targeted and convincing robustness sections for empirical finance papers. Instead of merely adding volume, it teaches the concept of 'subtraction, then precision'—identifying specific alternative explanations (threats) a referee might raise (e.g., reverse causality, omitted variables) and selecting the minimal, most effective check to neutralize each threat. This aligns with the philosophy of top-tier financial journals that value new ideas over superficial testing.

This guide serves as a comprehensive pre-submission self-check tool for authors targeting the journal Games and Economic Behavior (GEB). It details the journal's scope, required game-theoretic contributions (e.g., new models, equilibrium results, mechanisms), methodological rigor, and adherence to house style. It helps authors assess if their work is genuinely game-theoretic and provides guidance on re-framing strategies and potential alternative venues.

This detailed skill helps authors assess the suitability of their manuscript for top-tier Human Resource Management (HRM) journals. It provides a comprehensive framework for evaluating a paper's theoretical contribution, empirical rigor (e.g., handling common-method bias, multilevel designs), and credible implications for practice. It guides the necessary re-framing, structure, and necessary comparisons with alternative journals, ensuring authors meet the high academic bar set by the field.

This guide helps authors structure lengthy academic manuscripts, ensuring the main text maintains a clear, focused narrative while relegating supportive, detailed evidence to the appendices or supplementary materials. It outlines the 'determinative' principle, advising where to place hyperparameters, extended experiments, proof details, and code links to meet high journal standards and maximize readability for reviewers.

A comprehensive guide for authors revising manuscripts for the Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE). It details how to structure the point-by-point response letter, emphasizing the critical need to address the editor's concerns and incorporate robust empirical evidence (identification, mechanism, and alternative tests) to satisfy economics-trained reviewers.

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.

A comprehensive guide to structuring robustness checks for behavioral economics and empirical research. Instead of merely listing statistical tests, this framework mandates organizing checks by the underlying behavioral threat (e.g., experimenter demand, multiple comparisons, specification choice). It provides specific guidelines for experiments, observational data, and simulations, ensuring that findings are robust against alternative behavioral explanations and methodological choices.

Provides a comprehensive framework for constructing a robust battery of empirical tests, tailored for high-impact academic journals like JFE. This guide covers alternative measures, specifications, subsamples, and falsification tests, ensuring research findings are highly credible and capable of withstanding rigorous academic scrutiny.

A comprehensive guide for planning and stress-testing empirical analysis in financial intermediation, specifically for high-impact journals. It covers the construction of bank/loan-level panel datasets, defining variables (growth vs. levels), implementing advanced econometric specifications (e.g., fixed effects), and executing substantial robustness checks (placebo periods, alternative clustering). It also guides the planning of reproducible numerical illustrations for theoretical models.

This guide helps researchers evaluate the core mechanism of their academic paper, determining whether the focus is fundamentally on financial mechanisms. It provides criteria for positioning the work along the macro-finance or micro-corporate finance line, and offers advice on suggesting alternative journals if the topic drifts into general industrial, accounting, or management fields.

A comprehensive guide for performing rigorous robustness checks on causal estimates in law and economics. It teaches researchers how to pre-empt common referee concerns—such as specification search, alternative treatment dating, or contaminated controls—by implementing targeted, methodologically sound tests to ensure estimates are stable and credible.

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.