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jmcb-topic-selection
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.
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# 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