edmans-audit

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you reduce the risk of desk rejection and R&R rejection by auditing an academic finance paper against Alex Edmans' (2025) three-part rejection-reasons framework: Contribution, Execution, and Exposition.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Contribution diagnosis: Evaluates whether each research question would meaningfully update a knowledgeable reader’s beliefs, and whether the question is novel, important, and sufficiently interesting.
• Execution verification: Assesses sample quality, identification strength, alternative explanations, mechanism support, robustness, measurement quality, and economic magnitude interpretation—while cross-referencing claims against what analysis artifacts actually indicate.
• Exposition quality check: Identifies clarity, efficiency, motivation bloat, caveat placement, and whether figures/tables deliver clear payoff relative to the page space they consume.
• Structured, severity-labeled report: Produces a dated markdown audit report with a limited, force-ranked set of findings labeled CRITICAL/IMPORTANT/MINOR.

Quick Start

Ask the Skill to run an Edmans audit on your current paper so it generates an Output/edmans_audit_YYYY-MM-DD.md report with Executive Summary and Top 3 Priorities.