Armstrong et al. (2022) review the empirical methods used in the accounting literature to draw causal inferences. They … as the use of these methods in the accounting literature. In this discussion, I complement their review by broadening the … perspective. I argue for a design-based approach to accounting research that shifts attention from methods to the entire research …

Conference. The conference brought together several distinguished speakers from philosophy, economics, finance, accounting and … conference as relevant for accounting researchers. First, we emphasize the role of formal economic theory in informing empirical …

This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers adopt to draw causal inferences using observational (or … nonexperimental) data. The vast majority of accounting research papers draw causal inferences notwithstanding the well … methods also make strong assumptions that are not always fully appreciated. We believe that accounting research would benefit …