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jfe-topic-selection
Use when scoping or framing a topic for a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript and you need to test fit and contribution before investing in data work. Pressure-tests the question and contribution; it does not write the literature review or design the empirics.
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# Topic Selection & Fit (jfe-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You have data or a setting but no sharp economic question yet
- You are unsure whether the idea clears the JFE contribution bar
- You cannot state in one sentence what is new relative to existing finance papers
- You are choosing between JFE, JF, and RFS as the target outlet
## What JFE rewards
JFE (Elsevier; North-Holland; ISSN 0304-405X; founded 1974 by Michael C. Jensen) is one of the top-3 finance journals and publishes rigorous, methodologically demanding **empirical** corporate finance and asset pricing, plus the financial-economics theory that supports them. Its stated scope centers on **capital markets, financial institutions, corporate finance, corporate governance, and the economics of organizations**. The durable preference: a clean economic question, answered with a credible design and exhaustive evidence.
The two JFE best-paper prizes signal the two halves of the journal's taste: the **Jensen Prize** (best corporate-finance / organizations paper) and the **Fama-DFA Prize** (best asset-pricing / capital-markets paper). Aim a JFE submission at the kind of paper that could plausibly compete for one of them. (Editor-in-Chief Toni M. Whited, Michigan, since 2021; verify current scope on jfinec.com.)