# IRFA Submission Checklist — 2026-07-13

# Manuscript

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

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

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)