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Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesProfessorship of Empirical Accounting

Doctoral Course

Methods of Empirical Accounting Research

 

The course Methods of Empirical Accounting Research provides a broad overview of the econometric challenges of planning, conducting, and publishing archival research in the fields of international financial, managerial, and tax accounting. The participants gain a deeper understanding of the drivers and contemporary problem solving strategies for important econometric concerns such as endogeneity. Further, the course provides flexible guidance on how to minimize the existent gap between the theoretical arguments of a research paper and its empirical examinations.

  • Chapter 1: Introduction to empirical research techniques
  • Chapter 2: Publishing empirical accounting research
  • Chapter 3: General issues of empirical research
  • Chapter 4: Identification strategies, populations, and samples
  • Chapter 5: Spectrum of empirical research techniques
  • Chapter 6: Selected issues of regression analysis
  • Chapter 7: Selected issues of variance analysis