A skill your agent uses when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics (《财经研究》) empirical manuscript — mechanism tests are near-mandatory for the journal's…

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Install Cfe Mechanism

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cfe-mechanism -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cfe-mechanism --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics-Skills/skills/cfe-mechanism .claude/skills/cfe-mechanism && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
cfe-mechanism
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~681 tokens
SKILL.md length
145 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics (《财经研究》) empirical manuscript — mechanism tests are near-mandatory for the journal's…

  • Works in 3 steps: 理论指引:机制变量必须能挂上理论 / 已有文献,不是凭空想 → 时间一致:机制变量 M 的测量时点要在处理 D 之后、结果 Y 之前,不使用未来信息 → 可证伪:能写出"如果机制成立 → 应观察到 X;如果不成立 → 应观察到 Y"
  • SKILL.md covers 触发时机, 三种主流路径, 机制写作三段式 and 机制设计三原则, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cfe Mechanism is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics (《财经研究》) empirical manuscript — mechanism tests are near-mandatory for the journal's empirical submissions. 使用时机:主回归已稳健但机制缺位、中介效应只跑了 Sobel 检验、审稿人追问"为什么会有这个效应"、或机制小节需要按本刊惯例独立成节并排除竞争性解释时。Covers 路径 A/B/C 的选择、时间一致性与可证伪性三原则、机制表呈现惯例与解读句改写。

Its SKILL.md is about 680 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “s empirical submissions. 使用时机:主回归已稳健但机制缺位、中介效应只跑了 Sobel 检验、审稿人追问”
  • “/cfe-mechanism”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. 理论指引:机制变量必须能挂上理论 / 已有文献,不是凭空想
  2. 时间一致:机制变量 M 的测量时点要在处理 D 之后、结果 Y 之前,不使用未来信息
  3. 可证伪:能写出"如果机制成立 → 应观察到 X;如果不成立 → 应观察到 Y"

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Cfe Mechanism loads about 681 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 145 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~681

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 145 words, ~681 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cfe-mechanism/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
cfe-mechanism
description
Use when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics (《财经研究》) empirical manuscript — mechanism tests are near-mandatory for the journal's empirical submissions. 使用时机:主回归已稳健但机制缺位、中介效应只跑了 Sobel 检验、审稿人追问"为什么会有这个效应"、或机制小节需要按本刊惯例独立成节并排除竞争性解释时。Covers 路径 A/B/C 的选择、时间一致性与可证伪性三原则、机制表呈现惯例与解读句改写。

机制分析(cfe-mechanism)

触发时机

  • 主回归结果已稳健,但缺机制分析
  • 机制只有"我们认为可能是因为..."的口头说明
  • 审稿人问"为什么会有这个效应?"
  • 中介效应只跑了 Sobel 检验

三种主流路径

路径 A:中介效应 / 调节效应
  • 经典 Baron & Kenny 三步法已被弱化 → 推荐 Bootstrap 间接效应 + 因果中介(Imai-Keele-Yamamoto)
  • 不要只跑 Sobel 检验
  • 推荐报告:直接效应、间接效应、效应占比
  • 调节效应用交互项,并对调节变量做分组验证
路径 B:替换被解释变量为机制变量
  • 主回归:处理 D → 结果 Y
  • 机制:处理 D → 机制变量 M(如融资约束、信息透明度、税负、要素配置效率)
  • 然后讨论 M → Y 的合理性(理论 / 已有文献)

这是《财经研究》最常见、最稳妥的机制写法。

路径 C:跨子样本对比
  • 在"机制成立"和"机制不成立"的子样本中分别估计
  • 如果系数有显著差异 → 构成机制证据
  • 需要 Chow 检验或交互项确认系数差异显著

机制写作三段式

本文进一步从[机制名]角度提供证据。
首先,从理论上看,[机制变量 M] 应通过[路径]影响[因变量 Y]……
其次,实证上,本文采用[路径 A/B/C]:……,估计结果如表 X 所示。
最后,结合[已有文献],本文认为该机制……。

机制设计三原则

  1. 理论指引:机制变量必须能挂上理论 / 已有文献,不是凭空想
  2. 时间一致:机制变量 M 的测量时点要在处理 D 之后、结果 Y 之前,不使用未来信息
  3. 可证伪:能写出"如果机制成立 → 应观察到 X;如果不成立 → 应观察到 Y"

财经研究常见机制变量举例(按方向)

  • 公司财务:融资约束、代理成本、信息不对称、投资效率、现金持有
  • 公共财政:税负、财政激励、地方政府行为、转移支付依赖
  • 产业 / 贸易:要素错配、市场进入、出口质量、全要素生产率
  • 金融:信贷可得性、风险承担、市场流动性

(举例供启发,具体机制须由本文理论框架推导,并非套用。)

本刊机制小节的呈现惯例

本刊实证论文通常把机制独立成节(常见标题如"影响机制分析 / 机制检验 / 作用机制"),置于基准回归与稳健性检验之后。行文与出表的惯例:

  • 每个机制一小节:先一段理论推演(可回引前文假说),再一张表,再一段解读,不把两个机制混在一张表里挤着讲;
  • 机制表把被解释变量换成机制变量 M 时,控制变量组与固定效应设定与主回归保持一致,并在表注中说明;
  • 机制小节收尾加一段竞争性解释排除:点名 1–2 个最可能的替代渠道,说明本文证据(时间路径、异质性方向或安慰剂结果)为何与其不符;
  • 机制结论与异质性分析互为印证——机制若定位到融资约束,异质性就应在融资约束强的子样本中看到更大效应,两节交叉引用。
机制解读句改写对照

改写前:表 X 结果显著,说明该机制成立。

改写后:表 X 第(2)列显示,政策使企业融资约束指数下降 X(约为样本均值的 X%),且下降在政策后第一年即出现;结合基准回归中投资效应的时间路径,融资约束的缓解在时序上先于投资扩张,与"减税—缓解融资约束—扩大投资"的链条一致,而与"需求扩张"渠道隐含的同步变动模式不符。

解读句的合格线:报量级、报时序、点名被排除的替代渠道,三者至少占其二。

必查清单

  • 至少 1 个机制(理想 2–3 个互补机制)
  • 机制变量来源于理论 / 已有文献
  • 机制变量构造时间逻辑正确(不使用未来信息)
  • 机制部分至少 1 张独立的回归表
  • 机制结果与主回归一致(不能机制证伪了主结论)

反模式

  • 用"我们认为可能是因为..." 一句话代替机制分析
  • 中介效应只跑 Sobel 检验
  • 机制变量与处理变量构造时使用了未来信息
  • 机制结果反向(机制变量与主效应方向相反)但不解释
  • 把控制变量随手当机制变量,无理论支撑

输出格式

【机制数】X 个
【机制路径】A 中介/调节 / B 替换 Y / C 子样本
【理论引用】[文献]
【时间一致性】通过 / 待修
【下一步】cfe-heterogeneity

《财经研究》操作性加固

把本 skill 当作一次可验收的投稿前审查,而不是泛泛润色。先锁定核心问题、识别链条、机制证据和可执行的政策含义,再判断当前稿件是否真的满足《财经研究》的读者预期:中文财经学术审稿人会同时追问选题政策价值、识别可信度和本刊栏目适配。

  • Mechanism pass:Force every mechanism claim to name the mediator, timing, rival channel, and one diagnostic or falsification check.
  • 证据账本:输出“主张-证据-风险”三列;每条建议必须指向正文段落、表图、附录或待补材料。
  • 姊妹刊护栏:若稿件更像《经济研究》用于更强理论/全国性贡献,《管理世界》用于管理实践与政策治理,《金融研究》用于金融专门议题,必须说明为什么仍投《财经研究》,否则给出改投路径。
  • 停止条件:若识别、机制、数据可复现或官方投稿要求没有被核实,不给“可以投稿”的结论。

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics-Skills/skills/cfe-mechanism of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Cfe Mechanism

What does Cfe Mechanism do?

A skill your agent uses when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics (《财经研究》) empirical manuscript — mechanism tests are near-mandatory for the journal's…. Cfe Mechanism is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or writing mechanism analyses for a Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics (《财经研究》) empirical manuscript — mechanism tests are near-mandatory for the journal's empirical submissions.

How do I install Cfe Mechanism in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cfe-mechanism -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics-Skills/skills/cfe-mechanism in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/cfe-mechanism in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cfe Mechanism in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cfe-mechanism -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics-Skills/skills/cfe-mechanism in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/cfe-mechanism in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cfe Mechanism in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cfe-mechanism -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cfe-mechanism, .gemini/skills/cfe-mechanism, .github/skills/cfe-mechanism and .opencode/skills/cfe-mechanism in your project.

What does Cfe Mechanism need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cfe Mechanism is instructions for the agent only.

Does Cfe Mechanism access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Cfe Mechanism safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Cfe Mechanism use?

Cfe Mechanism is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Cfe Mechanism use?

About 681 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Cfe Mechanism?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.