Chapter 6 provides a clear introduction to different types of quasi-experimental designs with good discussion of their strengths and limitations. Chapter 7 is a clear and informative overview of ...

We study how securities analysts influence managers' use of different types of earnings management. To isolate causality, we employ a quasi-experiment that exploits exogerious reductions in analyst ...

In many experiments and observational studies, random assignment of subjects to treatment and control groups is not possible. These "quasi-experiments" can potentially lead to what is called selection ...