From car-skills
Selects and defends the research design for a Contemporary Accounting Research manuscript: archival, experimental, analytical, field, or survey, including CAR's mandatory ethics-approval verification.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/car-skills:car-methodsThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The design may not deliver the inference the question needs (identification, internal validity, equilibrium logic)
CAR welcomes any appropriate method; the bar is fit and rigor, not a preferred method. Pick the design that earns the claim:
| Claim | Design that earns it |
|---|---|
| Capital-market/contracting effect of reporting | Panel archival with fixed effects + an identification strategy |
| Causal effect of an information feature on judgment | Controlled experiment (lab/online/professional subjects) |
| Existence/optimality of an equilibrium or contract | Analytical model: primitives, equilibrium concept, proofs |
| Mechanism inside firms, audits, or standard-setting | Field study / interviews with an explicit coding protocol |
| A new construct's measurement and external validity | Survey with a validated instrument; or multi-method |
A two-study design (e.g., an experiment isolating the mechanism behind an archival association) is a recognized CAR strength.
【Design】panel-archival / experiment / analytical / field / survey / multi-method
【Inference fit】each prediction supportable? notes ...
【Identification / internal validity / equilibrium】strategy + assumptions ...
【Ethics】REB/IRB clearance, exemption, or senior-admin letter secured?
【Instrument & proprietary data】full instrument; verification/NDA plan ...
【Next step】car-data-analysis
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin car-skillsGuides researchers in selecting and sharpening a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript question, testing fit with CAR's method-agnostic scope and choosing the appropriate research tradition (archival, experimental, analytical, field, qualitative).
Matches research design to MIS Quarterly manuscript tradition: behavioral, economics-of-IS, design science, or qualitative. Plans evaluation strategies and guards against validity threats.
Designs causal identification strategies for accounting research manuscripts, including DiD, IV, RDD, and event studies. Activates when research design is the bottleneck.