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Use when deciding whether a topic fits Financial Management (FM) and is worth aiming there — testing the question for general-interest finance relevance, topicality, and managerial/market payoff before the literature and design work begins. Sets the target; it does not run analysis or write the paper.

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# Topic Selection (finman-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You have a finance result or idea and are unsure FM is the right home (vs. a specialist or a top-3 outlet)
- A coauthor asks "is this *general-interest* enough, or too niche, for FM?"
- The question feels technically sound but you cannot yet say why a practitioner or a non-specialist finance academic would care
- The topic feels dated — re-treading a settled debate rather than a live one

## The FM topic bar

FM is the FMA's **general-interest** finance journal, and its editors are unusually explicit about taste: they want "academic articles that people actually read," judged on **originality, rigor, timeliness, practical relevance, and quality**, with **less weight on trivial robustness** and real weight on whether the paper "provokes and furthers debate." Translated into a topic filter, an FM-worthy question is one a corporate-finance, asset-pricing, banking, *or* markets reader would all find interesting, that speaks to a decision a manager, investor, regulator, or trader actually faces, and that is **topical** — anchored to a current or emerging financial issue rather than a marginal extension of a 2008 debate. The journal also actively solicits work "from anywhere around the globe," so a clean non-US setting is an asset, not a liability, when the financial mechanism is general.

## Deciding whether the topic is FM-shaped
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