# IRFA Submission Checklist — 2026-07-13

## Manuscript
- [x] `manuscript_irfa.pdf` — elsarticle (preprint, 12pt, authoryear), 41 pages,
      compiles clean, 0 unresolved references, elsarticle-harv bibliography
- [x] Title, author + affiliation + email, abstract (<200 words), keywords, JEL
- [x] Declaration of competing interest (in manuscript)
- [x] Data availability statement (in manuscript; source: Finnhub.io aggregation,
      pinned public snapshot for reproducibility)
- [x] `highlights.pdf` — 5 bullets, ≤85 characters each
- [x] `cover_letter.pdf`
- [x] `manuscript_anonymous.pdf` — author identity/CRediT/acknowledgments stripped
- [x] `title_page.pdf` — full author details (Professeur, Dépt. sciences administratives,
      UQO, Pavillon Alexandre-Taché, J9A 1L8) + declarations + CRediT statement
- [x] `online_appendix.pdf` (skeleton; extended audit + full robustness to be
      finalized before submission)

## Science
- [x] 110 DOI-verified references (docs/LITERATURE_MAP.md)
- [x] All numbers macro-generated from machine-readable registries (no hand-typed
      results); regenerate with scripts/15_build_results_macros.py
- [x] Robustness battery (Table VIII): 11 designs incl. placebo-network
      falsification, month-cluster inference, post-decimalization
- [x] Figures: vector PDF, CVD-safe palette + line styles, source data CSVs

## Remaining before actual submission (author actions)
- [x] Author details complete (title page + frontmatter); add acknowledgments if any
- [ ] Finalize online appendix content (extended tables)
- [ ] Check current IRFA Guide for Authors for any format updates (record date
      in docs/DECISION_LOG.md)
- [ ] Clarify licensing note for the data aggregation (DATA_AUDIT §1)