A skill your agent uses when anticipating and pre-empting referee objections before submitting a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript.

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Install Jimf Referee Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jimf-referee-strategy -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jimf-referee-strategy --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-International-Money-and-Finance-Skills/skills/jimf-referee-strategy .claude/skills/jimf-referee-strategy && 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
jimf-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,155 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when anticipating and pre-empting referee objections before submitting a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript.

  • Works in 5 steps: Triage by lethality. A "wrong journal"… → Decide visible vs. reserve. Put the… → Pre-write the hard paragraph. For the… → …
  • Anticipating and pre-empting referee objections before submitting a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How JIMF referees read a paper, Building the pre-emption plan and Distinguishing this skill from…, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jimf Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating and pre-empting referee objections before submitting a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript. Maps the likely international-finance pushbacks to fixes you make now; it does not draft the post-decision response (jimf-rebuttal).

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k 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 Research & Science, covering Peer review. 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

  • Anticipating and pre-empting referee objections before submitting a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/jimf-referee-strategy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Triage by lethality. A "wrong journal" or "global-confounder" objection can sink the paper; a "typo in Table 3" cannot. Fix the lethal…
  2. Decide visible vs. reserve. Put the answers to the top three objections in the main text (the editor reads it); hold lower-priority checks…
  3. Pre-write the hard paragraph. For the single most dangerous objection, draft the paragraph you would write in a response letter now — if…
  4. Suggest reviewers who know the program (if the journal asks) and avoid conflicts; a referee from the right sub-literature is more likely…
  5. Use the cover letter to frame the contribution and the journal fit so the editor does not desk-reject on a "scope" reflex.

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

Jimf Referee Strategy loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 73 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,155 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~73
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

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). 1,155 words, ~2,189 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jimf-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jimf-referee-strategy
description
Use when anticipating and pre-empting referee objections before submitting a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript. Maps the likely international-finance pushbacks to fixes you make now; it does not draft the post-decision response (jimf-rebuttal).

Referee Strategy (jimf-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • The paper is near submission and you want to see it through a JIMF referee's eyes first
  • You suspect a predictable objection (endogeneity, "it's just the GFC," US-centrism) is unanswered
  • You need to decide which checks to run now versus hold in reserve for a revision
  • The contribution is solid but the framing invites a "wrong journal" or "incremental" rejection

How JIMF referees read a paper

A JIMF referee is usually an international-finance specialist who will probe three things in order: is the contribution genuinely international and non-incremental; is the identification credible against global confounders; and is the result robust to the field's standard fragility checks (episode, dollar, regime, measure). The most common reasons for rejection are not statistical errors but (1) thin international content, (2) a causal claim that is really a correlation with a global driver, and (3) results that do not survive dropping the obvious episode or the US. Anticipate these.

Predictable JIMF objectionPre-empt it now by
"This is incremental / not enough new for an international audience"Stake the contribution against the named frontier program (jimf-literature-positioning)
"This belongs at JIE / JME / JMCB / JFE"Draw the sibling boundary explicitly in the intro and cover letter
"Your causal claim is the global financial cycle, not your variable"Add time FE / push-pull interaction so within-time variation identifies (jimf-identification)
"Your surprise is contaminated by the information channel"Purge / sign-correct the surprise and show the test
"It's just the 2008 crisis / the dollar"Drop the episode; drop the US; use NEER (jimf-robustness)
"Policy is endogenous to the outcome"Argue timing exogeneity; instrument; placebo countries
"Your inference ignores cross-country dependence"Two-way clustering / Driscoll–Kraay / wild bootstrap
"EPFR isn't BoP flows" / measurement disputeDeclare and defend the measure; show the alternative (jimf-empirical-design)
"No policy takeaway"Add a bounded, defensible implication for a central bank / IMF reader

Building the pre-emption plan

  1. Triage by lethality. A "wrong journal" or "global-confounder" objection can sink the paper; a "typo in Table 3" cannot. Fix the lethal ones before submission, even at the cost of delay.
  2. Decide visible vs. reserve. Put the answers to the top three objections in the main text (the editor reads it); hold lower-priority checks in the online appendix or in reserve for the revision so you have something to give.
  3. Pre-write the hard paragraph. For the single most dangerous objection, draft the paragraph you would write in a response letter now — if you cannot write it convincingly, the paper is not ready.
  4. Suggest reviewers who know the program (if the journal asks) and avoid conflicts; a referee from the right sub-literature is more likely to see the contribution.
  5. Use the cover letter to frame the contribution and the journal fit so the editor does not desk-reject on a "scope" reflex.

Distinguishing this skill from jimf-rebuttal

Referee strategy is pre-submission: you are the adversary, simulating the report before it exists so you can fix the lethal objections while it is cheap. Rebuttal is post-decision: a real report has arrived and you respond. Use this skill to decide what to run and what to hold before you press submit; switch to jimf-rebuttal once a decision letter is in hand. The two share a threat vocabulary (global-confounder, drop-US, inference, scope) but differ in leverage: before submission you can re-architect; after, you are negotiating within the editor's framing.

Worked vignette (illustrative)

Before submitting a paper on capital-control effectiveness, the author audits it as a referee. The lethal objection: controls are imposed when flows surge, so the timing is endogenous, and any "effectiveness" is mean-reversion. The pre-emption: foreground an institutional feature that makes the timing plausibly exogenous (a control triggered by a calendar rule or an external mandate, not the flow level), add placebo countries that faced the same global surge without imposing controls, and put the pre-trend test in the main text. The author also pre-writes the response paragraph; finding it hard to write convincingly, they add a difference-in-differences against the placebo set before submission rather than after.

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Reading the JIMF process to set expectations

JIMF is a high-volume Elsevier field journal: desk-rejection on scope/incrementality is real, and turnaround and acceptance rates vary (待核实 — do not quote a specific figure). Two practical implications for strategy: (1) the editor's first decision is often a scope/fit triage, so the cover letter and intro must make the international contribution unmissable; (2) reports tend to be empirical and specific (the "drop the US," "rule out the GFCy," "fix the clustering" family) rather than abstract, so pre-empting the concrete checks is more valuable than polishing framing alone.

Checklist

  • The three most lethal objections identified and answered in the main text
  • "Wrong journal" pre-empted by an explicit sibling boundary (JIE/JME/JMCB/JFE)
  • The global-confounder objection answered with time FE / push-pull, not just controls
  • The "drop the episode / drop the US" checks are in the paper before a referee asks
  • Inference objection pre-empted (clustering/dependence handled)
  • A bounded policy takeaway present for the policy-economist referee
  • "Wrong journal" managed on title, first paragraph, and cover letter simultaneously
  • Load-bearing checks are in the paper; only discretionary checks held in reserve
  • A reserve of lower-priority checks held for the revision

Anti-patterns

  • Submitting with the obvious "it's the GFC / it's the dollar" objection unaddressed and hoping the referee misses it
  • Burying the answer to the most dangerous objection in a footnote or the appendix
  • Treating a scope/"wrong journal" risk as unmanageable instead of framing the fit in the cover letter
  • Front-loading every robustness check so there is nothing left to offer in a revision
  • Suggesting reviewers with conflicts, or from the wrong sub-literature who will miss the contribution
  • Assuming a clever identification excuses thin international content — JIMF's first filter is the international margin

The "wrong journal" risk is the one to manage hardest

Because JIMF sits among close siblings, a non-trivial share of rejections are scope decisions rather than quality decisions. Manage this on three surfaces simultaneously: the title (lead with the international object — exchange rate, capital flow, spillover, sovereign), the first paragraph (state the open-economy question, not the data), and the cover letter (one sentence on why this is international money and finance and not JIE/JME/JMCB/JFE). If a careful reader could still finish the abstract unsure whether the paper is international, the scope risk is unmanaged and a fix is cheaper now than a transfer later.

Choosing what to hold in reserve

A revision is a negotiation, and it helps to enter it with checks the referee will be glad to receive. Put the lethal answers (global-confounder, drop-US, drop-episode, inference) in the submitted paper, but keep a few credible-but-secondary checks — an alternative GFCy proxy, a sub-period split, an additional placebo set — ready to deploy in the first response. This signals responsiveness and gives the referee a visible win without re-architecting the paper. Do not, however, withhold a check the result actually needs to be believed: reserve is for the discretionary, not the load-bearing.

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of International Money and Finance
【Skill】jimf-referee-strategy
【Top 3 lethal objections】<scope / global-confounder / robustness / inference / measurement>
【Answered in main text】each lethal objection addressed before review? [Y/N]
【Sibling-boundary pre-empt】JIE/JME/JMCB/JFE framed? [Y/N]
【Policy takeaway】bounded implication present? [Y/N]
【Reserve checks】held for revision: <list>
【Next skill】jimf-rebuttal (after a decision letter arrives)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-International-Money-and-Finance-Skills/skills/jimf-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jimf Referee Strategy

What does Jimf Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating and pre-empting referee objections before submitting a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript. Jimf Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating and pre-empting referee objections before submitting a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript.

When should I use Jimf Referee Strategy?

Jimf Referee Strategy fits situations like: anticipating and pre-empting referee objections before submitting a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Jimf Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jimf Referee Strategy in Codex?

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

Can I use Jimf Referee Strategy 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 jimf-referee-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jimf-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/jimf-referee-strategy, .github/skills/jimf-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/jimf-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Jimf Referee Strategy need to run?

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

Does Jimf Referee Strategy 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 Jimf Referee Strategy 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 Jimf Referee Strategy use?

Jimf Referee Strategy 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 Jimf Referee Strategy use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.8k 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 Jimf Referee Strategy?

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