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Use when the prose of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript needs to reach the journal's register — precise, evidence-forward, and free of hedging or overclaiming. Polishes language and structure; it does not change the empirics or the contribution.

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# Writing Style (jfe-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The introduction hedges or buries the contribution
- Claims outrun the evidence ("proves," "definitively shows")
- Sentences are long, passive, and vague about who did what
- The paper reads like a lab notebook rather than an argument
- A referee might say "I cannot tell what the contribution is"

## The JFE register

JFE prose is precise, restrained, and evidence-forward. Because JFE papers are technical and long, clarity is what keeps a referee on your side: every claim is calibrated to the evidence, magnitudes are stated, and the contribution is unmissable in the first page. Overclaiming is punished harder than modest framing. The famous JFE papers — **Jensen & Meckling (1976)** and **Fama & French (1993)** — are remembered partly because their central idea is stated plainly and early; write to that standard.
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