JIMF Workflow Router (jimf-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It tells you which jimf- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) — Elsevier's field journal (ISSN 0261-5606; online 1873-0639; founded 1982) for international monetary and financial economics. The center of gravity is exchange rates, capital flows, the global financial cycle, cross-border banking, sovereign debt and risk, currency crises, and monetary-policy spillovers — i.e. open-economy macro-finance with an asset-pricing and identification spine. JIMF rewards a paper that takes a cross-country or high-frequency international design and answers a question a central banker, an IMF/BIS economist, or an international-finance professor would recognize as first-order.
The defining workflow tell: JIMF is an Elsevier journal on Editorial Manager, not a society journal. There is no membership gate, no submission fee for a standard paper (open-access APC only if the author chooses gold OA — 待核实), single-anonymized review is the Elsevier default (待核实 — confirm on the live Guide for Authors), and abstracts run ≤250 words with required Highlights and CRediT author statements. Re-verify volatile specifics (editor names, exact APC, blinding) on the official ScienceDirect/Elsevier pages — access checked 2026-06.
When to trigger
- The user asks "what should I do next?" on a JIMF-bound paper
- A draft's binding constraint (fit, identification, exhibits, prose, response letter) is unclear
- Work is ping-ponging between data/design, framing, exhibits, and the rebuttal
- The team is comparing JIMF with siblings (JIE, JME, JMCB, JFE) and needs to confirm fit
Routing table
| Current symptom |
Next skill |
| Scope/outlet fit uncertain; might be a JIE/JME/JMCB paper |
jimf-topic-selection |
| Contribution vs. the international-finance frontier is fuzzy |
jimf-literature-positioning |
| The causal or structural credibility is the bottleneck |
jimf-identification |
| Cross-country/high-frequency sample, measurement, or panel design is fragile |
jimf-empirical-design |
| Results may be specification-, sample-, regime-, or inference-sensitive |
jimf-robustness |
| Exhibits are dense or do not answer the question |
jimf-tables-figures |
| Online appendix is too thin or sprawling; data/code deposit unclear |
jimf-internet-appendix |
| Intro/abstract/Highlights miss the JIMF voice |
jimf-writing-style |
| Close to submission; need an Editorial Manager preflight |
jimf-submission |
| Likely referee objections should be pre-empted |
jimf-referee-strategy |
| A decision letter arrived and needs a response plan |
jimf-rebuttal |
Default order
jimf-topic-selection → jimf-literature-positioning → jimf-identification → jimf-empirical-design → jimf-robustness → jimf-tables-figures → jimf-internet-appendix → jimf-writing-style → jimf-submission → jimf-referee-strategy → jimf-rebuttal
jimf-writing-style is late-stage polish: do not rewrite the intro before identification, the cross-country design, and the robustness layer settle. jimf-internet-appendix runs in parallel with exhibits, not after acceptance — JIMF referees check the appendix.
Routing by paper archetype
JIMF papers cluster into four archetypes; the first bottleneck differs by archetype, so enter the chain at the right link.
| Archetype |
Likely first bottleneck |
Enter at |
| High-frequency identification (FX / policy-surprise event study, intraday) |
event-window construction + surprise measurement |
jimf-identification → jimf-empirical-design |
| Cross-country panel (capital flows, credit, GFCy exposure) |
comparability + within-country vs. cross-country variation |
jimf-empirical-design → jimf-identification |
| Policy / institutional natural experiment (capital controls, FXI, regime switch) |
a clean control group + endogenous-policy concern |
jimf-identification |
| Open-economy model + estimation (UIP deviations, term premia, sovereign default) |
what data feature identifies each parameter |
jimf-identification → jimf-robustness |
Worked routing example (illustrative)
A user says: "My event study finds the dollar appreciates after Fed surprises, but a referee says my surprise measure is contaminated by the information channel and my country sample is unbalanced." Two distinct JIMF pushbacks — surprise identification (owned by jimf-identification, separating the pure monetary shock from the central-bank information shock) and panel comparability (owned by jimf-empirical-design, the unbalanced cross-country sample). Route to jimf-identification first; only once the cleaned surprise series is defended do you return to jimf-empirical-design, then jimf-robustness to show the dollar response survives sample and window choices.
Stage gates (advance only when the gate is cleared)
Each handoff has a gate; do not advance a paper past a gate it has not cleared, and route back if a later stage exposes an earlier weakness.
| Gate |
Cleared when |
| topic → positioning |
the international margin is load-bearing, not decorative |
| positioning → identification |
the contribution is one sentence against a named frontier program |
| identification → design |
the global confounder (GFCy / common US shock) is addressed |
| design → robustness |
measures, country set, and frequency are declared and defended |
| robustness → exhibits |
the result survives dropping the obvious episode and the US |
| exhibits → appendix |
the headline international effect is findable in seconds |
| appendix → style |
the body is self-contained; the deposit traces to every number |
| style → submission |
the abstract (≤250w), Highlights, and JEL land for a policy reader |
Minimal decision snippet
if decision_letter_arrived: -> jimf-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit: -> jimf-submission
elif anticipating_objections: -> jimf-referee-strategy
elif intro_or_abstract_weak: -> jimf-writing-style
elif appendix_or_deposit_unclear: -> jimf-internet-appendix
elif exhibits_dense: -> jimf-tables-figures
elif result_fragile: -> jimf-robustness
elif data_or_measurement_shaky: -> jimf-empirical-design
elif identification_shaky: -> jimf-identification
elif contribution_fuzzy: -> jimf-literature-positioning
else: -> jimf-topic-selection
Anti-patterns
- Treating JIMF as interchangeable with Journal of International Economics (real trade + real open-economy macro), JME (domestic monetary/business-cycle), JMCB (domestic money/banking), or JFE (corporate/asset-pricing without the international margin)
- Polishing prose before the design, contribution, and evidence hierarchy are stable
- Letting the online appendix carry a claim the main text must establish
- Quoting volatile process facts (editor, APC, blinding) as permanent rather than marking 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准
- Submitting an applied-finance paper with no international/open-economy margin — JIMF's reason to exist
Output format
【Target】Journal of International Money and Finance (Elsevier)
【Archetype】high-frequency / cross-country panel / policy experiment / open-economy model
【Current bottleneck】fit / contribution / identification / design / robustness / exhibits / appendix / style / submission / revision
【Next skill】<one jimf-* skill>
【Reason】why this is the binding constraint now
【Source check】official facts verified or marked 待核实 / 检索于 2026-06
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills → Journal-of-International-Money-and-Finance-Skills/skills/jimf-workflow/SKILL.md
1---2name: jimf-workflow3description: Use when deciding which jimf-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing a Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) manuscript from topic through rebuttal. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.4---5
6
7# JIMF Workflow Router (jimf-workflow)
8
9## Overview
10
11This is the router. It tells you **which jimf-* skill to use at the current stage** of a manuscript aimed at the *Journal of International Money and Finance* (JIMF) — Elsevier's field journal (ISSN 0261-5606; online 1873-0639; founded 1982) for **international monetary and financial economics**. The center of gravity is exchange rates, capital flows, the global financial cycle, cross-border banking, sovereign debt and risk, currency crises, and monetary-policy spillovers — i.e. *open-economy macro-finance with an asset-pricing and identification spine*. JIMF rewards a paper that takes a cross-country or high-frequency international design and answers a question a central banker, an IMF/BIS economist, or an international-finance professor would recognize as first-order.
12
13The defining workflow tell: JIMF is an **Elsevier journal on Editorial Manager**, not a society journal. There is no membership gate, no submission fee for a standard paper (open-access APC only if the author chooses gold OA — 待核实), single-anonymized review is the Elsevier default (待核实 — confirm on the live Guide for Authors), and abstracts run **≤250 words** with required Highlights and CRediT author statements. Re-verify volatile specifics (editor names, exact APC, blinding) on the official ScienceDirect/Elsevier pages — access checked 2026-06.
14
15## When to trigger
16
17- The user asks "what should I do next?" on a JIMF-bound paper
18- A draft's binding constraint (fit, identification, exhibits, prose, response letter) is unclear
19- Work is ping-ponging between data/design, framing, exhibits, and the rebuttal
20- The team is comparing JIMF with siblings (JIE, JME, JMCB, JFE) and needs to confirm fit
21
22## Routing table
23
24| Current symptom | Next skill |
25|-----------------|------------|
26| Scope/outlet fit uncertain; might be a JIE/JME/JMCB paper | `jimf-topic-selection` |
27| Contribution vs. the international-finance frontier is fuzzy | `jimf-literature-positioning` |
28| The causal or structural credibility is the bottleneck | `jimf-identification` |
29| Cross-country/high-frequency sample, measurement, or panel design is fragile | `jimf-empirical-design` |
30| Results may be specification-, sample-, regime-, or inference-sensitive | `jimf-robustness` |
31| Exhibits are dense or do not answer the question | `jimf-tables-figures` |
32| Online appendix is too thin or sprawling; data/code deposit unclear | `jimf-internet-appendix` |
33| Intro/abstract/Highlights miss the JIMF voice | `jimf-writing-style` |
34| Close to submission; need an Editorial Manager preflight | `jimf-submission` |
35| Likely referee objections should be pre-empted | `jimf-referee-strategy` |
36| A decision letter arrived and needs a response plan | `jimf-rebuttal` |
37
38## Default order
39
40`jimf-topic-selection → jimf-literature-positioning → jimf-identification → jimf-empirical-design → jimf-robustness → jimf-tables-figures → jimf-internet-appendix → jimf-writing-style → jimf-submission → jimf-referee-strategy → jimf-rebuttal`
41
42> `jimf-writing-style` is late-stage polish: do not rewrite the intro before identification, the cross-country design, and the robustness layer settle. `jimf-internet-appendix` runs in parallel with exhibits, not after acceptance — JIMF referees check the appendix.
43
44## Routing by paper archetype
45
46JIMF papers cluster into four archetypes; the first bottleneck differs by archetype, so enter the chain at the right link.
47
48| Archetype | Likely first bottleneck | Enter at |
49|-----------|-------------------------|----------|
50| High-frequency identification (FX / policy-surprise event study, intraday) | event-window construction + surprise measurement | `jimf-identification` → `jimf-empirical-design` |
51| Cross-country panel (capital flows, credit, GFCy exposure) | comparability + within-country vs. cross-country variation | `jimf-empirical-design` → `jimf-identification` |
52| Policy / institutional natural experiment (capital controls, FXI, regime switch) | a clean control group + endogenous-policy concern | `jimf-identification` |
53| Open-economy model + estimation (UIP deviations, term premia, sovereign default) | what data feature identifies each parameter | `jimf-identification` → `jimf-robustness` |
54
55## Worked routing example (illustrative)
56
57A user says: "My event study finds the dollar appreciates after Fed surprises, but a referee says my surprise measure is contaminated by the information channel and my country sample is unbalanced." Two distinct JIMF pushbacks — *surprise identification* (owned by `jimf-identification`, separating the pure monetary shock from the central-bank information shock) and *panel comparability* (owned by `jimf-empirical-design`, the unbalanced cross-country sample). Route to `jimf-identification` first; only once the cleaned surprise series is defended do you return to `jimf-empirical-design`, then `jimf-robustness` to show the dollar response survives sample and window choices.
58
59## Stage gates (advance only when the gate is cleared)
60
61Each handoff has a gate; do not advance a paper past a gate it has not cleared, and route back if a later stage exposes an earlier weakness.
62
63| Gate | Cleared when |
64|------|--------------|
65| topic → positioning | the international margin is load-bearing, not decorative |
66| positioning → identification | the contribution is one sentence against a named frontier program |
67| identification → design | the global confounder (GFCy / common US shock) is addressed |
68| design → robustness | measures, country set, and frequency are declared and defended |
69| robustness → exhibits | the result survives dropping the obvious episode and the US |
70| exhibits → appendix | the headline international effect is findable in seconds |
71| appendix → style | the body is self-contained; the deposit traces to every number |
72| style → submission | the abstract (≤250w), Highlights, and JEL land for a policy reader |
73
74## Minimal decision snippet
75
76```
77if decision_letter_arrived: -> jimf-rebuttal
78elif ready_to_submit: -> jimf-submission
79elif anticipating_objections: -> jimf-referee-strategy
80elif intro_or_abstract_weak: -> jimf-writing-style
81elif appendix_or_deposit_unclear: -> jimf-internet-appendix
82elif exhibits_dense: -> jimf-tables-figures
83elif result_fragile: -> jimf-robustness
84elif data_or_measurement_shaky: -> jimf-empirical-design
85elif identification_shaky: -> jimf-identification
86elif contribution_fuzzy: -> jimf-literature-positioning
87else: -> jimf-topic-selection
88```
89
90## Anti-patterns
91
92- Treating JIMF as interchangeable with **Journal of International Economics** (real trade + real open-economy macro), **JME** (domestic monetary/business-cycle), **JMCB** (domestic money/banking), or **JFE** (corporate/asset-pricing without the international margin)
93- Polishing prose before the design, contribution, and evidence hierarchy are stable
94- Letting the online appendix carry a claim the main text must establish
95- Quoting volatile process facts (editor, APC, blinding) as permanent rather than marking 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准
96- Submitting an applied-finance paper with no international/open-economy margin — JIMF's reason to exist
97
98## Output format
99
100```text
101【Target】Journal of International Money and Finance (Elsevier)
102【Archetype】high-frequency / cross-country panel / policy experiment / open-economy model
103【Current bottleneck】fit / contribution / identification / design / robustness / exhibits / appendix / style / submission / revision
104【Next skill】<one jimf-* skill>
105【Reason】why this is the binding constraint now
106【Source check】official facts verified or marked 待核实 / 检索于 2026-06
107```
108
109---
110
111**Source:** [`brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills`](https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) → `Journal-of-International-Money-and-Finance-Skills/skills/jimf-workflow/SKILL.md`
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