A skill your agent uses when working on Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) manuscripts to test whether the paper is centrally about banking and financial intermediation — whether an…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Jfi Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfi-topic-selection -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jfi-topic-selection --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-Financial-Intermediation-Skills/skills/jfi-topic-selection .claude/skills/jfi-topic-selection && 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
jfi-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
569 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when working on Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) manuscripts to test whether the paper is centrally about banking and financial intermediation — whether an…

  • How it differs from a Journal of Banking and Finance fit
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JFI fit bar, Theory vs. empirics (decide… and Fit decision table, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Whether to lead with theory

What it does

Jfi Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when working on Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) manuscripts to test whether the paper is centrally about banking and financial intermediation — whether an intermediary mechanism is load-bearing, how it differs from a Journal of Banking and Finance fit, and whether to lead with theory or empirics — before investing in the draft.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Banking and insurance. 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.

When your agent uses it

  • How it differs from a Journal of Banking and Finance fit
  • Whether to lead with theory
  • Empirics — before investing in the draft

Example prompts

  • “/jfi-topic-selection”

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

Jfi Topic Selection loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 569 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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). 569 words, ~1,222 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jfi-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jfi-topic-selection
description
Use when working on Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) manuscripts to test whether the paper is centrally about banking and financial intermediation — whether an intermediary mechanism is load-bearing, how it differs from a Journal of Banking and Finance fit, and whether to lead with theory or empirics — before investing in the draft.

Topic Selection (jfi-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • Deciding whether a project fits the Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) at all
  • Choosing whether the paper's spine is a model (theory) or an empirical design

The JFI fit bar

JFI is an Elsevier journal on banking, financial intermediation, and the economics of financial institutions and markets, publishing both theory and empirics. The decisive question is: is an intermediary or financial-institution mechanism first-order? Strong fits put banks, lenders, dealers, insurers, or other intermediaries — and the frictions they resolve or create (information asymmetry, monitoring, liquidity transformation, capital and regulation, relationship lending) — at the center.

A paper is off-fit if intermediation is incidental: a pure asset-pricing result, a corporate-finance study where banks are just a control, or a macro paper with no institutional channel. Redirect those to a general finance or field journal unless you can make the intermediation mechanism the load-bearing contribution.

Theory vs. empirics (decide early)

  • Theory-led: the contribution is a model of intermediary behavior or a market friction. Plan around assumptions, propositions, and proof exposition (see jfi-identification-strategy) and a numerical example (see jfi-data-analysis).
  • Empirics-led: the contribution is a credibly identified fact about banks/credit. Plan around a causal design and bank/loan-level data (see jfi-identification-strategy, jfi-data-analysis).

This choice shapes how almost every later skill is applied, so make it now.

Fit decision table

ProjectVerdictWhy
Relationship lending and information capture in a credit registerStrongCore intermediation mechanism
Bank capital shock transmission to credit and firmsStrongRegulation working through the intermediary balance sheet
Deposit competition and franchise valueStrongLiability-side intermediation economics
Fintech lenders displacing bank creditStrong if the displacement runs through screening/monitoringThe intermediation contrast must do the work
Bank stock-return anomaliesRedirectAsset pricing wearing bank clothing
Firm capital structure with bank debt as one covariateRedirectBanks incidental to the question
Macro credit cycles with no institutional channelRedirectNo intermediary mechanism to test
Show full SKILL.md (254 more words)Show less

The JBF boundary test

A quick differentiator from the Journal of Banking and Finance, JFI's closest neighbor: JBF accommodates broad empirical banking — institutional documentation, cross-country performance, risk-management practice. JFI expects the paper to test, discipline, or extend an intermediation mechanism. Ask: "which theory of intermediation does my result speak to?" If the honest answer is "none, but the facts are useful," the project is likely a better JBF match; if a named friction does the work, you are on JFI ground.

Worked fit check (illustrative)

A draft shows banks with older depositor bases raise deposit rates 15bp less after policy hikes. As pure documentation: borderline at best. Re-anchored to the deposit-franchise mechanism — market power over inattentive depositors funds stable long-duration lending, with the asset-side prediction then tested — the same data become a strong JFI fit. At this venue, topic selection is mechanism selection.

Rescue moves for a borderline verdict, in order of preference: (1) find the intermediation prediction your setting can uniquely test and promote it to the headline; (2) add the heterogeneity cut (bank capital, relationship intensity, depositor stickiness) that separates the intermediary channel from alternatives; (3) if neither exists, redirect early — before the non-refundable submission fee, not after. Run this check again whenever the headline result changes during analysis; fit verdicts drift.

Anti-patterns

  • Submitting an asset-pricing or corporate-finance paper where intermediation is decorative
  • Leaving "theory or empirics?" unresolved, producing a paper that is thin on both
  • Choosing JFI only because of fit with a sub-literature without a clear intermediary mechanism

Output format

【Intermediation mechanism】<the first-order bank/intermediary channel>
【Fit verdict】strong / borderline / redirect-elsewhere
【Paper type】theory-led / empirics-led / both
【Next skill】jfi-literature-positioning

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Financial-Intermediation-Skills/skills/jfi-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jfi Topic Selection

What does Jfi Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when working on Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) manuscripts to test whether the paper is centrally about banking and financial intermediation — whether an…. Jfi Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when working on Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI) manuscripts to test whether the paper is centrally about banking and financial intermediation — whether an intermediary mechanism is load-bearing, how it differs from a Journal of Banking and Finance fit, and whether to lead with theory or empirics — before investing in the draft.

When should I use Jfi Topic Selection?

Jfi Topic Selection fits situations like: how it differs from a Journal of Banking and Finance fit; whether to lead with theory; empirics — before investing in the draft.

How do I install Jfi Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfi-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Financial-Intermediation-Skills/skills/jfi-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jfi-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jfi Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfi-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Financial-Intermediation-Skills/skills/jfi-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jfi-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jfi Topic Selection 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 jfi-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jfi-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/jfi-topic-selection, .github/skills/jfi-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/jfi-topic-selection in your project.

What does Jfi Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jfi Topic Selection 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 Jfi Topic Selection 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 Jfi Topic Selection use?

Jfi Topic Selection 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 Jfi Topic Selection use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k 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 Jfi Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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