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car-methods
Use when the research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — choosing and defending an archival, experimental, analytical, field, or survey design and, for human-participant work, meeting CAR's mandatory ethics-approval verification. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation (car-data-analysis).
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# Research Design & Methods (car-methods)
## When to trigger
- The design may not deliver the inference the question needs (identification, internal validity, equilibrium logic)
- An archival causal claim rests on an endogenous regressor with no strategy
- An experiment's manipulation may not isolate the theorized construct
- The study involves human participants and ethics-approval verification is unprepared
- A reviewer says "the design cannot support this claim"
## Match the design to the question (CAR is method-agnostic)
CAR welcomes any appropriate method; the bar is *fit and rigor*, not a preferred method. Pick the design that earns the claim:
