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rfs-literature-positioning
Use when the related-work framing is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — defining the precise delta against JF/JFE/RFS and prior literature. Builds positioning, not the empirical design or the topic itself.
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# Literature Positioning (rfs-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The related-work section is a list ("X did A, Y did B") with no synthesis
- You cannot state your contribution as a single crisp delta
- A reader asks "how is this different from [recent RFS/JF/JFE paper]?"
- The novelty claim from `rfs-topic-selection` needs to be defended against the literature
## How RFS reviewers read positioning
RFS referees and editors are typically the authors of the papers you cite. The handling editor pool is concrete — Executive Editor Tarun Ramadorai plus editors such as Viral Acharya, Xavier Giroud, Andrey Malenko, Anna Pavlova, Clemens Sialm, David Sraer, and Jessica Wachter — so the person screening an intermediation, household-finance, or asset-pricing paper may well be a primary author in that literature. Positioning is judged on whether you (1) know the *current* frontier, (2) cite the right primary sources rather than secondary surveys, and (3) state a delta that is real and defensible — not rhetorical. When you build on an RFS-defining result (e.g., Brunnermeier–Pedersen 2009 on the liquidity-funding spiral, RFS 22(6)), cite the RFS original, not a later survey that paraphrases it.
The contribution must clear two bars simultaneously: