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Finance literature review

Skill azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill/.cursor/skills/finance-literature-review

Finance-first literature review skill pack for Codex, Cursor, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.

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npx -y skills add azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill --skill finance-literature-review

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Conduct finance-first literature reviews and related-work synthesis. Use when the user asks for a literature review, related literature section, annotated bibliography, gap map, journal-targeted reading list, finance or macro-finance paper scan, corporate finance or asset-pricing synthesis, banking or disclosure literature summary, or adjacent economics / accounting review. Prioritize top finance journals first, then adjacent top economics and accounting journals, then clearly labeled working papers from NBER, CEPR, SSRN, and RePEc.

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Finance Literature Review

Purpose

Run a disciplined finance literature review rather than a generic paper search.

The default goal is to:

  1. scope the question,
  2. prioritize venues correctly,
  3. verify citations,
  4. extract finance-relevant study attributes,
  5. synthesize by design and mechanism,
  6. produce a usable reading list and matrix.

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Hard Rules

  • Never fabricate citations or metadata.
  • Always separate published papers from working papers.
  • Start with top finance journals.
  • Only widen into economics or accounting when the topic genuinely overlaps.
  • Capture sample, period, unit of observation, identification strategy, main result, mechanism, and limitation for each core empirical paper.
  • Say explicitly when only titles or abstracts are available.

Venue Order

  1. Core finance journals.
  2. Adjacent finance journals.
  3. Top economics journals if needed.
  4. Top accounting journals if needed.
  5. Frontier working-paper outlets.

Use references/journal-priority.md.

Workflow

Step 1: Scope

Clarify the topic, mechanism, geography, sample period, and output type.

Step 2: Search Grid

Build a search grid with:

  • concept terms,
  • finance synonyms,
  • method terms,
  • policy or event names,
  • dataset names,
  • working-paper sources.

Step 3: Collect

Collect seminal published papers first, then recent papers, then frontier working papers.

Step 4: Extract

Use templates/literature-matrix.md and record:

  • citation,
  • venue tier,
  • published or working paper,
  • question,
  • sample and period,
  • unit,
  • identification strategy,
  • main finding,
  • mechanism,
  • limitation,
  • why the paper matters.

Step 5: Synthesize

Synthesize by theme, mechanism, and design. Avoid paper-by-paper summaries unless requested.

Step 6: Deliver

Default outputs:

  • scoped question,
  • prioritized reading list,
  • literature matrix,
  • synthesis,
  • gap statement,
  • verified citation block.

Before finishing, check references/synthesis-checklist.md.

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