edmans-audit

To audit your finance paper for referee readiness, you can run a pre-submission evaluation against Alex Edmans' three-part rejection framework: Contribution, Execution, and Exposition. The audit reads your active LaTeX sections and cross-references analysis evidence to produce a severity-labeled markdown report.

Yes, you can check your LaTeX paper against Alex Edmans' 2025 rejection criteria by running an automated audit. It evaluates your research questions, identification strength, and exposition quality by reading active .tex files and cross-referencing claims against your analysis registry.

You verify contribution and execution by diagnosing whether each research question meaningfully updates reader beliefs and assessing sample quality, identification strength, and mechanism support. The audit cross-references your claims against actual analysis artifacts to confirm sufficient execution.

No, the audit requires cross-referencing claims via Code/REGISTRY.md to verify execution quality. It reads the framework rubric from references and cross-references analysis evidence to accurately assess if your claims match the actual analysis artifacts.

The best way to get a force-ranked list of issues is to generate a structured audit report. This produces a dated markdown file with an Executive Summary and Top 3 Priorities, labeling findings as CRITICAL, IMPORTANT, or MINOR based on the Edmans rejection framework.