Skill UI

This skill acts as a comprehensive workflow router for authors preparing a survey or review article for the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL). It guides users through the entire academic writing lifecycle, from initial topic selection and proposing the scope to systematic literature synthesis, structuring the argument, and handling revisions based on editor/referee feedback. It ensures the output is a scholarly synthesis, not a primary research paper.

This guide provides a structured methodology for translating highly technical academic papers, particularly in econometrics or macroeconomics, into plain language suitable for a broad scholarly audience (like the Journal of Economic Perspectives). It focuses on removing notation, jargon, and complex mathematical derivations, while rigorously preserving the underlying economic intuition and causal mechanism of the research.

A comprehensive guide for academics to determine if a research topic is suitable for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP). It teaches authors to shift focus from presenting a narrow, new result (primary research) to synthesizing a broad, timely, and accessible understanding for a non-specialist audience, assessing criteria like breadth of interest, timeliness, and synthesizability.

This router guides authors through the entire process of developing a compelling, non-technical synthesis article for a broad audience, specifically for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP). It determines the optimal next skill to use—whether focusing on topic selection, narrative structure, improving accessibility, ensuring balance, or drafting the initial proposal—ensuring the final product reads as an accessible essay rather than a specialized research paper.

This guide teaches academics how to write the 'related work' section for high-level theoretical journals. It emphasizes positioning a new result relative to the closest existing theorem, rather than giving a broad survey. Users learn to identify and articulate the precise 'delta'—whether it's weakening assumptions, achieving greater generality, introducing a new object, or providing a tighter/constructive characterization.

This guide helps researchers determine if their economic project—whether theory-heavy, empirical, or computational—meets the rigorous theoretical standards required for high-impact journals like the Journal of Economic Theory (JET). It outlines critical criteria such as originality, theoretical grounding, and the necessity of leading with a core theorem.

A comprehensive guide for strengthening causal claims in corporate and empirical finance research. This resource details advanced econometric methods—including IV, DiD, RDD, and natural experiments—and provides strategies to preempt common methodological attacks (e.g., endogeneity, parallel-trends violations) required by top-tier academic journals like the Journal of Finance.

This guide teaches authors how to strategically position their research manuscript, particularly for top finance journals (like The Journal of Finance). It moves beyond a general literature survey, instructing users to articulate a crisp, unique marginal contribution—whether it's a new fact, mechanism, or method—relative to the closest existing literature. This ensures the paper is framed to meet the high standards of academic rigor and novelty required by leading journals.

A comprehensive guide for empirical finance researchers on structuring robustness checks and handling multiple testing concerns for top-tier journals like The Journal of Finance. It teaches how to distinguish load-bearing checks for the main text versus exhaustive analyses relegated to the Internet Appendix, ensuring methodological rigor and maximizing impact.

This guide provides a comprehensive pre-flight checklist for submitting research to The Journal of Finance (JF) via the AFA online portal. It covers specific requirements such as the 60-page limit, bundling the Internet Appendix, handling tiered submission fees, and mandatory code sharing/disclosure statements, ensuring authors submit a complete and compliant manuscript.

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.

A comprehensive guide for refining academic finance manuscripts to meet the high standards of top journals like the Journal of Finance (JF). It teaches authors how to structure introductions to immediately convey the research question, key finding, and economic magnitude on page one, ensuring accessibility for a general finance audience while maintaining technical precision.