Accounting and Causal Effects Econometric Challenges /

• Main Author: Schroeder, Douglas A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Accounting Scholarship, 5
• Subjects: Economics.; Economics > Statistics.; Econometrics.; Auditing.; Economics/Management Science.; Accounting/Auditing.; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance.
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While there is a substantial literature in labor economics and microeconometrics directed toward endogenous causal effects, causal effects have received relatively limited attention in accounting. This volume builds on econometric foundations, including linear, discrete choice, and nonparametric reg...

Table of Contents:

• Preface. 1. Introduction
• 2 . Accounting choice
• 3. Linear models
• 4. Loss functions and estimation
• 5. Discrete choice models
• 6. Nonparametric regression
• 7. Repeated-sampling inference
• 8. Overview of endogeneity
• 9. Treatment effects: ignorability
• 10. Treatment effects: IV
• 11. Marginal treatment effects
• 12. Bayesian treatment effects
• 13. Informed priors
• Appendix: Asymptotic theory
• Bibliography
• Index.