A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a monetary, banking, credit, or macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling, and how to…

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Install Jmcb Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jmcb-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-Money-Credit-and-Banking-Skills/skills/jmcb-topic-selection .claude/skills/jmcb-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
jmcb-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,101 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a monetary, banking, credit, or macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling, and how to…

  • Works in 4 steps: Object. Is money, credit, a bank balance… → Policy payoff. Can you name the… → Mechanism, not correlation. Is there a… → …
  • Deciding whether a monetary
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What JMCB actually wants, Sibling boundary — pick the… and A four-question fit screen, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jmcb Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a monetary, banking, credit, or macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling, and how to frame its policy stakes. Locks the question and outlet fit; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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 Citation management. 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

  • Deciding whether a monetary
  • Macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money
  • Credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling
  • How to frame its policy stakes

Example prompts

  • “/jmcb-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Object. Is money, credit, a bank balance sheet, or the policy apparatus the dependent mechanism — not a covariate? If no, reconsider the…
  2. Policy payoff. Can you name the decision-maker (FOMC, ECB, a prudential regulator) and the lever your result informs in one sentence?
  3. Mechanism, not correlation. Is there a transmission channel (rate → bank funding → lending → real activity, or a credit-friction wedge)…
  4. Comparative advantage. What does JMCB's audience get here that the sibling's audience would not value as much? If the honest answer is…

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 Topic Selection loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 74 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,101 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~74
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). 1,101 words, ~2,184 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jmcb-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jmcb-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a monetary, banking, credit, or macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling, and how to frame its policy stakes. Locks the question and outlet fit; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Topic Selection (jmcb-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You have a result on monetary policy, banking, credit, or macro-finance and are unsure JMCB is the right home
  • The paper could plausibly go to the Journal of Monetary Economics, AEJ:Macro, RED, or JBF and you need to pick
  • A referee or coauthor questioned whether the question is "JMCB enough" — too narrow-finance, too pure-theory, or no policy hook
  • The contribution is technically sound but the policy stakes are unstated

What JMCB actually wants

JMCB is the OSU/Wiley monetary-and-banking outlet that bridges policy and the macro-financial system. Founded in 1969 and long associated with the Ohio State University Department of Economics, it has historically prized work that a central bank, regulator, or financial-stability authority would find usable. The papers that land here share three traits: (1) the object of study is money, credit, banks, or the monetary/financial-policy machinery — not corporate finance or asset pricing for its own sake; (2) there is a clear policy or institutional payoff — a decision-maker would care about the answer; (3) the method is either a quantitative monetary/banking model or credible empirics, and the timing/institutions are made explicit. A purely methodological contribution with no monetary/banking application, or a banking-data paper with no transmission/credit/policy mechanism, is a poor fit.

Sibling boundary — pick the right outlet before you write the intro

If the paper's core is…It likely belongs at…JMCB fits only if…
A new macro/monetary theory or method, deep field-macroJournal of Monetary Economicsthe model is built to answer a concrete monetary/banking-policy question
General-interest macro for a broad audienceAEJ:Macrothe contribution is specifically about money/credit/banking transmission
Quantitative dynamic GE, business-cycle methodologyReview of Economic Dynamicsthe dynamics are in service of a monetary/credit mechanism
Bank risk, regulation, micro-banking with no macro/policy bridgeJournal of Banking & Financethe bank result speaks to transmission, credit supply, or systemic policy
Asset pricing / corporate financeJF / JFE / RFS / JFImoney/credit/central-bank policy is the driving force, not a control

The JMCB sweet spot is the intersection: bank-level credit-supply responses to a monetary shock; the deposit channel of policy; reserve/liquidity regulation and lending; sovereign-bank doom loops; central-bank balance-sheet policy and term premia; payment systems and money demand.

A four-question fit screen

  1. Object. Is money, credit, a bank balance sheet, or the policy apparatus the dependent mechanism — not a covariate? If no, reconsider the venue.
  2. Policy payoff. Can you name the decision-maker (FOMC, ECB, a prudential regulator) and the lever your result informs in one sentence?
  3. Mechanism, not correlation. Is there a transmission channel (rate → bank funding → lending → real activity, or a credit-friction wedge) you can show, not just an association?
  4. Comparative advantage. What does JMCB's audience get here that the sibling's audience would not value as much? If the honest answer is "nothing," route to the sibling.

Topics that fit, and how to angle marginal ones

Strong-fit territory: the bank lending and deposits channels of monetary policy; credit-supply effects of capital and liquidity regulation; central-bank balance-sheet and QE transmission; reserve and reference-rate (e.g., SOFR transition) plumbing; the sovereign-bank nexus; money demand and payment systems; financial-stability policy and the macro-credit cycle.

Marginal topics can still fit if re-angled:

  • A corporate-finance result fits if the bank/credit-supply channel is the driver, not a control — foreground the intermediary.
  • An asset-pricing result fits if monetary policy or intermediary frictions move the prices — foreground the policy/intermediation mechanism.
  • A pure-theory monetary model fits if it produces a quantitative, policy-relevant counterfactual — foreground the policy experiment, not the theorem.

Scoping feasibility before you commit

Before locking the topic, check that the data and identification are actually attainable: many JMCB-natural questions require restricted bank or central-bank data (supervisory panels, credit registers, RDC access). If the clean identification needs data you cannot get, the topic is not yet feasible — either secure the access path or re-scope to public data (Call Reports, Y-9C, FRED, ALFRED real-time vintages) that can still carry the mechanism. Decide this now, not after months of writing.

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Quick desk-reject screen

Before investing in the design, run the paper against the reasons JMCB editors decline without review: the object is finance/macro generally, with money/credit/banks only incidental; the contribution is purely methodological with no monetary/banking application; the result is a correlation with no transmission or credit mechanism; or the question is too narrow to interest a policy-minded monetary audience. If any of these fits, either re-angle toward the mechanism and policy payoff, or route to the better-matched sibling now rather than after a desk reject (which costs the submission fee minus US$50 — 检索于 2026-06;以官网为准).

Checklist

  • The question is about money, credit, banks, or monetary/financial policy as the mechanism, not a setting
  • A named policy or institutional payoff is stated in one sentence
  • The chosen venue beats JME / AEJ:Macro / RED / JBF for this paper, with the reason written down
  • The transmission or credit-friction channel is identifiable, not just a reduced-form correlation
  • Data/sample feasibility checked (restricted bank or central-bank data access path scoped if needed)
  • The 40-page recommended length is realistic for the scope, or the cut is planned
  • Process facts cited from resources/official-source-map.md or marked 待核实

Anti-patterns

  • A banking-data paper with no transmission, credit-supply, or policy mechanism — reads as JBF, not JMCB
  • A monetary model whose only contribution is technical, with no policy counterfactual — reads as JME or RED
  • "Policy relevance" asserted in the abstract but never operationalized into a lever or counterfactual
  • Choosing JMCB because two siblings desk-rejected, without re-framing the question to JMCB's strengths
  • Inventing editor names, fees, or page limits instead of marking volatile facts 待核实

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A researcher has firm-level data showing that firms borrowing from weakly capitalized banks invested less after 2008. As a corporate-finance paper this is a JFE/RFS story about financing constraints. The JMCB re-angle: make the bank the unit of mechanism — show that the investment drop reflects a contraction in credit supply from undercapitalized banks transmitting the crisis, and tie it to the policy lever (bank recapitalization and capital regulation as macro-stabilization tools). Same data, but now the object is the bank lending channel and the payoff is a regulatory one — a clean JMCB fit rather than a finance-journal one.

Lock the question in one sentence before moving on

The deliverable of this stage is a single sentence a JMCB editor would recognize as in-scope: "[object: money/credit/bank/policy] → [mechanism: transmission/credit-friction channel] → [policy payoff: lever a named decision-maker controls]." If you cannot fill all three slots, the topic is not yet ready to hand to jmcb-literature-positioning; the missing slot tells you what to fix — a vague object means reroute, a missing mechanism means deepen the design, a missing payoff means re-angle toward policy.

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
【Skill】jmcb-topic-selection
【Verdict】fit / reframe / reroute-to-sibling
【One-sentence question】monetary/banking/credit/macro-finance object + policy payoff
【Policy payoff】decision-maker + lever the result informs
【Mechanism】transmission or credit-friction channel (not a correlation)
【Sibling boundary】why JMCB beats JME / AEJ:Macro / RED / JBF here
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实 / not asserted
【Next skill】jmcb-literature-positioning

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jmcb Topic Selection

What does Jmcb Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a monetary, banking, credit, or macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling, and how to…. Jmcb Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a monetary, banking, credit, or macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling, and how to frame its policy stakes.

When should I use Jmcb Topic Selection?

Jmcb Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a monetary; macro-finance question belongs at the Journal of Money; credit and Banking (JMCB) rather than a sibling; how to frame its policy stakes.

How do I install Jmcb Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jmcb Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jmcb Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jmcb 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 Jmcb 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 Jmcb Topic Selection use?

Jmcb 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 Jmcb Topic Selection use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.7k 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 Jmcb Topic Selection?

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