A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript before submission (or before resubmitting), so the paper pre-empts the…

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Install Jmcb Referee Strategy

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript before submission (or before resubmitting), so the paper pre-empts the…

  • Works in 5 steps: List the three objections most likely to… → For each, decide whether to fix it now… → Benchmark your magnitudes against the… → …
  • Anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Money
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Who reviews at JMCB, and what…, Building the pre-emption map and The standard objection arsenal…, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jmcb Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript before submission (or before resubmitting), so the paper pre-empts the predictable monetary/banking pushbacks. Hardens the paper against its own reviewers; it does not draft the response letter (see jmcb-rebuttal).

Its SKILL.md is about 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 referee objections for a Journal of Money
  • Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript before submission (or before resubmitting)
  • So the paper pre-empts the predictable monetary/banking pushbacks

Example prompts

  • “/jmcb-referee-strategy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. List the three objections most likely to sink the paper, by referee type, ranked by damage.
  2. For each, decide whether to fix it now (add the analysis), answer it in the text (a paragraph that defuses it), or flag it as a scoped…
  3. Benchmark your magnitudes against the canonical literature — a transmission elasticity or deposit beta that is an order of magnitude off…
  4. Address the sibling-journal reflex — a referee may think "this belongs at JME/JBF." Make the policy/monetary framing in the intro answer…
  5. Pre-write the hard-question answers so that, if the report comes, the analysis already exists (this feeds jmcb-rebuttal).

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

Jmcb Referee Strategy loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 987 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~85
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~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.

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SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 987 words, ~1,976 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jmcb-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jmcb-referee-strategy
description
Use when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript before submission (or before resubmitting), so the paper pre-empts the predictable monetary/banking pushbacks. Hardens the paper against its own reviewers; it does not draft the response letter (see jmcb-rebuttal).

Referee Strategy (jmcb-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • The paper is near submission and you want to find the objections before a referee does
  • You are unsure which editorial desk / referee type the paper will draw and how to address each
  • A prior rejection's reports show a recurring objection you have not yet defused
  • The contribution is sound but the paper has obvious unguarded flanks (shock cleanliness, demand contamination, inference)

Who reviews at JMCB, and what they attack

JMCB papers are typically refereed by monetary/banking specialists who hold strong priors about mechanisms and are quick to spot the field's classic failures. Anticipate the reviewer type your paper will draw and pre-empt their reflexes:

Referee typeWhat they reliably attackPre-empt by
Monetary-macro empiricistshock contamination (information effect, anticipation); SVAR ordering; IRF inferenceclean, info-robust shock; ordering/restriction sensitivity in the body
Banking micro-econometriciandemand vs. supply; clustering; M&A/identifier hygienefirm×time FE; two-way clustering; merger-adjusted panel
Structural/quant modelerwhat disciplines parameters; policy-invariance of the counterfactualparameter-to-moment map; Lucas-critique defense
Policy-oriented reader"so what for a central bank?"; magnitude plausibilityexplicit policy lever; magnitudes benchmarked to known estimates

Building the pre-emption map

  1. List the three objections most likely to sink the paper, by referee type, ranked by damage.
  2. For each, decide whether to fix it now (add the analysis), answer it in the text (a paragraph that defuses it), or flag it as a scoped limitation (honest boundary). Most should be fixed or answered in the body, not deferred.
  3. Benchmark your magnitudes against the canonical literature — a transmission elasticity or deposit beta that is an order of magnitude off the consensus will draw fire; pre-empt by situating it.
  4. Address the sibling-journal reflex — a referee may think "this belongs at JME/JBF." Make the policy/monetary framing in the intro answer that before it is raised.
  5. Pre-write the hard-question answers so that, if the report comes, the analysis already exists (this feeds jmcb-rebuttal).

The standard objection arsenal at JMCB

These recur often enough that you should assume at least two will appear; pre-empting them in the body converts a likely revision round into a faster one:

  • "Your monetary shock is not exogenous." The information effect, anticipation, and policy-rule endogeneity are the first things a macro referee tests. Have the info-robust version ready.
  • "This is demand, not supply." For any bank-lending result, the demand-vs-supply identification is the reflexive objection. Firm×time fixed effects (or the single-vs-multi-bank-firm split) is the expected answer.
  • "Inference is overstated." Two-way clustering, few-cluster corrections, and serial-correlation-robust bands are checked routinely on panels and time series.
  • "The magnitude is implausible / off-consensus." A number far from the canonical literature without explanation reads as an artifact.
  • "Why JMCB and not JME/JBF?" Implicitly a scope objection; if unanswered it can become a transfer recommendation rather than a revision.
  • "It does not replicate / the data are not reproducible." Given the journal's archive history, vagueness about data construction or code draws fire early.

Editor desk awareness

JMCB runs multiple editors with different specializations (monetary-macro vs. banking). The desk a paper draws shapes which referees and which objections dominate. You cannot choose the desk, but you can make the cover letter and intro speak to whichever lens is most likely — a banking paper should pre-empt the banking-econometrics objections most forcefully, a monetary-macro paper the shock-identification ones. Confirm current desks (待核实) before tailoring the cover letter.

Checklist

  • Top three likely objections listed by referee type and ranked by damage
  • Each objection has a decided response: fix now / answer in text / scoped limitation
  • Shock cleanliness (info effect) and demand-vs-supply pre-empted if applicable
  • Inference (clustering, few-cluster, serial correlation) pre-empted
  • Headline magnitudes benchmarked against the canonical literature
  • The "why JMCB not JME/JBF" reflex answered in the intro
  • Hard-question analyses pre-built so the rebuttal can cite them
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Anti-patterns

  • Submitting with an obvious unguarded flank (raw-residual shock, one-way clustering) and hoping no one notices
  • Treating every objection as fixable by an appendix table rather than a tightened argument
  • Ignoring magnitude plausibility — a result far off consensus with no explanation invites rejection
  • Leaving the sibling-journal question unanswered, so a referee recommends transfer instead of revision
  • Writing defensive prose now that pre-argues with a referee who has not yet objected

Limitations, stated on your terms

A short, honest limitations passage in the paper disarms referees more effectively than silence. State the scope conditions a referee would otherwise flag — the local nature of the estimate, the single-country sample, the regime the result is identified in — and frame each as a bounded claim rather than a weakness to be discovered. The aim is that the referee's objection is already acknowledged and scoped in your words, leaving them to evaluate the contribution rather than to "catch" an unstated flaw.

Worked vignette (illustrative)

Before submitting a paper on monetary transmission through bank capital, the authors war-game the reviews. The banking referee will ask whether the lending response is demand; they pre-empt with firm×quarter fixed effects and say so in the body. The macro referee will question the shock; they use info-robust surprises and add an ordering-sensitivity panel. The policy reader will ask "so what?"; the intro now names capital regulation as the targetable lever. When the actual report later raises exactly the demand objection, the answer — and the table — already exist, turning a potential reject into a one-round revision.

Turn the war-game into pre-built defenses

The payoff of anticipating objections is that the analysis exists before the report does. For each top objection, run the defensive analysis now and keep it ready — even if it lives in the online appendix at submission. When the report later raises that exact point, the response is "see Appendix B.4, which we already provide," and the revision is a single round rather than two. This is the highest-leverage use of pre-submission time: the objections you cannot pre-empt in the body, you pre-answer in the drawer. It also feeds directly into jmcb-rebuttal, where these pre-built tables become the point-by-point responses.

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
【Skill】jmcb-referee-strategy
【Likely referee types】which specialists this paper draws
【Top objections】3 ranked by damage, tagged by referee type
【Response per objection】fix now / answer in text / scoped limitation
【Magnitude benchmark】headline situated vs. canonical estimates
【Sibling reflex】how the intro answers "why not JME/JBF"
【Feeds】jmcb-rebuttal (pre-built answers) / back to jmcb-robustness or jmcb-identification if a fix is needed
【Next skill】jmcb-rebuttal

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Money-Credit-and-Banking-Skills/skills/jmcb-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jmcb Referee Strategy

What does Jmcb Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript before submission (or before resubmitting), so the paper pre-empts the…. Jmcb Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript before submission (or before resubmitting), so the paper pre-empts the predictable monetary/banking pushbacks.

When should I use Jmcb Referee Strategy?

Jmcb Referee Strategy fits situations like: anticipating referee objections for a Journal of Money; credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript before submission (or before resubmitting); so the paper pre-empts the predictable monetary/banking pushbacks.

How do I install Jmcb Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jmcb Referee Strategy in Codex?

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

Can I use Jmcb 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 jmcb-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/jmcb-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/jmcb-referee-strategy, .github/skills/jmcb-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/jmcb-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Jmcb Referee Strategy need to run?

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

Does Jmcb 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 Jmcb 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 Jmcb Referee Strategy use?

Jmcb 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 Jmcb Referee Strategy use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.9k 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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