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Causal Inferences in Capital Markets Research is an attempt to promote a broad interdisciplinary debate about the notion of causality and the role of causal inference in the social sciences. At the risk of oversimplifying, the issue of causality divides the accounting research community in two polar views: the view that causality is an unattainable ideal for the social sciences and must be given up as a standard, and the view that, on one hand, causality should be the ultimate goal of all scientific endeavors and, on the other hand, theory and causal inference are inextricable. Reflecting and...

A Primer on Structural Estimation in Accounting Research provides an introduction to researchers interested in incorporating structural models into their analysis. The monograph is designed for researchers with little or no prior knowledge of structural models and with the objective to make barriers to entry into this literature no greater than in other theoretical or empirical areas. The emphasis is on adequate use of the methods in applied work. While most examples are drawn from accounting research, many of the methods are applicable more generally to other related areas such as finance,...