jimf-literature-positioning

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# Literature Positioning (jimf-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The intro lists related work but never says what this paper does that the frontier does not
- A referee writes "this is close to [Rey on the global financial cycle / Gopinath on dominant currency / Miranda-Agrippino-Rey on spillovers] — what is new?"
- The contribution reads as "we extend X to country Y / sample Z" rather than a new object
- The paper could be read as a JIE, JME, or JFE contribution and the JIMF claim is not staked

## How JIMF expects positioning to be built

JIMF is a field journal, so positioning is judged against the **international monetary-finance literature specifically**, not all of macro or all of finance. The bar is: name the closest two or three papers, state the precise margin on which you move past them, and show the margin matters for an open-economy question. The frontier clusters into recognizable programs — the global financial cycle and the trilemma/dilemma debate; dominant-currency pricing and exchange-rate pass-through; monetary-policy spillovers and the international transmission channel; capital-flow push vs. pull and the literature on capital controls / FX intervention; sovereign risk, original sin, and external debt; and international asset pricing (UIP deviations, carry, currency risk premia). Locate your paper in one of these and differentiate within it.

The discipline this imposes: you are not differentiating from "the literature," you are differentiating from the *two or three specific papers a JIMF referee in your sub-program will have in mind*. Identify them honestly — they are usually the ones you most wish did not exist — and make the margin against them precise. A positioning that survives contact with the closest competitor survives the referee.