jimf-topic-selection

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# Topic Selection (jimf-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- A finance/macro question is forming and you must decide whether JIMF is the right outlet vs. JIE, JME, JMCB, or JFE
- The paper has a result but the **international/open-economy margin** is implicit or decorative
- A referee or coauthor says "this is interesting, but is it *international money and finance*?"
- You need a domestic result repackaged for an international audience — and want to know if that repackaging is real or cosmetic

## The JIMF "does it belong here?" test

JIMF publishes work where the **international or cross-border dimension is load-bearing**, not a robustness footnote. The litmus test: if you removed the open-economy element (the exchange rate, the cross-border flow, the foreign monetary shock, the sovereign external position), would the paper collapse or merely lose a section? If it merely loses a section, you have a domestic paper with international garnish — route it to JME/JMCB/JFE instead. JIMF's core objects are exchange-rate dynamics and pass-through, capital-flow drivers (push vs. pull) and the global financial cycle, cross-border banking and the international transmission of monetary policy, sovereign risk and external debt, currency crises, FX intervention and capital controls, and international asset pricing (UIP, carry, term premia).

| Candidate question | JIMF-fit verdict | Why / where else |