cfe-mechanism
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A comprehensive guide for conducting rigorous mechanism analysis in empirical finance and economics papers. It covers three main testing paths (Mediation, Replacing Y, Sub-samples), best practices for causal inference (e.g., recommending Bootstrap over Sobel), and the academic structure required for high-impact journals. Focuses on time consistency, theory grounding, and excluding competing explanations.