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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NBS) for climate adaptation encompass a range of approaches that work with nature to increase resilience to climate change while providing ecological, economic and social co‐benefits. These solutions have frequently been put forward for application in urban contexts, such as the creation of urban forests, but can ...
Anita Vollmer +2 more
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Which updates during an equity crowdfunding campaign increase crowd participation? [PDF]
, 2017 Start-ups often post updates during equity crowdfunding campaigns. However, little is known about the effects of such updates on crowd participation.
Block, J. (Jörn) +2 more
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New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International organizations' (IOs) evaluation policies face unprecedented threats from post‐truth dynamics—delegitimization of expertise, nationalist framing against multilateralism, authoritarian overconfidence, and anti‐scientific sentiment. Despite institutional convergence on independence safeguards, methodological standards, and normative
Mita Marra
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Sharia fintech: Crowdfunding as MSMEs financing
Al-MuamalatFintech equity crowdfunding has arrived in Indonesia, expanding options for entrepreneurs to raise capital. Indonesia's predominantly Muslim population increases the potential demand for access to Shariah-based capital as well as the potential for ...
Hilma Rohmatul Ummah +2 more
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BRICS Law Journal, 2023 The concept of equity-based crowdfunding (ECF) has become one of the latest innovative financing alternatives for startups and SMEs throughout the world during the last decade.
M. Aydemir, A. F. Aysan
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Friend or Foe? Crowdfunding Versus Credit when Banks are Stressed [PDF]
, 2015 Does bank instability push borrowers to use crowdfunding as a source of external finance? We identify stressed banks and link them to a unique, manually constructed sample of 157 new ventures seeking equity crowdfunding.
Blaseg, Daniel, Koetter, Michael
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Signaling in Equity Crowdfunding
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This paper presents an initial empirical examination of which start-up signals will induce small investors to commit financial resources in an equity crowdfunding context. We examine the impact of firms’ financial roadmaps (e.g., preplanned exit strategies such as IPOs or acquisitions), external certification (awards, government grants and patents ...
Gerrit K.C. Ahlers +3 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama +3 more
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The Contribution of Limited Liability Principle and Crowdfunding Concept to Access Finance
International Journal of Public Finance, 2023 Especially in the early 19th century, states have been in search of finding finance for large projects such as dams, bridges and road construction that they could not finance on their own.
Temel Güner
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Poll results: Is crowdfunding a fad? [PDF]
, 2015 The first equity crowdfunding websites were only set up four years ago, but since then the sector has grown phenomenally: from 2012-14, in the UK alone equity crowdfunding grew by 410% (you can read more about this in our introduction to the poll)
Fox, Mary
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