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Crowdfunding is a new form of both investment opportunities and source of raising capital. The aim of this chapter is to explore the understanding of the newly invented crowdfunding, types of the existing platforms of the industry. Authors investigated crowdfunding platforms that are registered in securities commission Malaysia and Kapitalboost ...
Teresa Pepe
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The role of crowdfunding in reducing the equity gap in Poland [PDF]
The aim of the paper is to verify if equity crowdfunding has an impact on equity gap reduction among early stage companies in Poland. The analysis is based on crowdfunding campaigns organized on the three most popular platforms in Poland during the 2015 ...
Michał Łukowski, Piotr Zygmanowski
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Fundraiser engagement, third-party endorsement and crowdfunding performance: A configurational theory approach. [PDF]
Reward-based crowdfunding is a typical two-sided platform (fundraiser side and backer side) with high information asymmetry. While existing research indicates that signals from fundraisers and backers can impact crowdfunding performance, the interplay ...
Qingxiang Li, Nianxin Wang
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Improving the role of equity crowdfunding in Europe's capital markets [PDF]
Crowdfunding is a growing phenomenon that encompasses several different models of financing for business or other ventures. Despite the hype, equity crowdfunding is still the smallest part of the crowdfunding market.
Karen Wilson, Marco Testoni
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Crowdfunding has proved for a very short time to be a powerful tool to stimulate innovative entrepreneurship. Only original and quality projects and ventures that are good enough will be recognized by crowdfunders and get a chance of this alternative option to be funded with the money that will arrive from different parts of the world without any ...
Borgerhoff, Julie, Byttebier, Koen
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Crowdfunding is a novel and increasingly popular means to finance cultural projects. Crowdfunding calls are often used to appeal to the general public and collect funding for prospective cultural projects, and thus to raise revenues before the full costs of creation are incurred.
Ying Zhao, Phil Harris, Wing Lam
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Do backers prefer crowdfunding or pre-order? An empirical study
To advertise or estimate demand, many pre-order items appear on crowdfunding platforms. Few studies have explored backers’ preferences between crowdfunding projects and pre-order items.
Yuan Zhou, Jie Cui, Nianxin Wang
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Overcoming Regulatory Hurdles in the Indonesian Crowdfunding Landscape
With the exponential rise in crowdfunding, several pertinent issues have come to the fore. These include unauthorized access to personal data, exorbitant interest rates for funding recipients, and investor fund security concerns.
Afif Noor +3 more
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Determinants and preferences for a crowdfunding project
This paper aims to investigate what determines young working individuals’ willingness to fund a crowdfunding project, and their preferences for a crowdfunding model (e.g. debt-based crowdfunding or equity-based crowdfunding).
Mohammad Tariqul Islam Khan
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What drives crowdfunding participation? The influence of personal and social traits [PDF]
Purpose - Crowdfunding has become a popular and achievable means of funding projects worldwide. The purpose of this study is to determine which personal and social traits can increase individuals’ intention to participate in crowdfunding.
Yusimi Rodriguez-Ricardo +2 more
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