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Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurial Finance: The Rise of ICOs
Initial Coin Offering (ICO), a fundamentally new funding model, can be viewed as “the next big thing” in entrepreneurial finance. ICOs are unregulated issuances of cryprocurrencies used by blockchain startups to fund the development of distributed ...
Lesław Pietrewicz
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ABSTRACT Despite the universal acknowledgment of financial profit expectations as an investment driver, environmental concern has been suggested as a factor influencing investors' decisions to purchase cryptocurrency. In this sense, this study investigates the impact of environmental information on investment allocation decisions to purchase different ...
Moritz Wendl +2 more
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A decade after the financial market started experimenting with blockchain, the prevailing view of EU regulators has been that blockchain based transactions do not fit into the current regulatory regime.
Asress Adimi Gikay
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Success determinants of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
Fintech companies have been surging taking advantage of the current technological developments and have been challenging traditional incumbents. Disruptive ventures financed by cryptocurrencies are one of the main topics related to technological developments, capable of completely eliminating the need for a third-party intervenient and reducing the gap
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The Network State, Exit, and the Political Economy of Venture Capital
Abstract This article focuses on the Network State movement as embodying the venture capital (VC) logic of exit. Exit constitutes both a strategy for lucrative returns and an ideology seeking out new territories for financial and technological speculation.
Olivier Jutel
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Initial Coin Offerings and Agile Practices
An ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is an innovative way to fund projects based on blockchain. The funding is based on the selling of tokens by means of decentralized applications called smart contracts written in Solidity, a programming language specific for
Simona Ibba +4 more
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Правовое регулирование ICO в Российской Федерации [PDF]
В статье дан обзор новому инструменту привлечения капитала — понятию ICO (Initial Coin Offering).
Емцева, С. С.
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The Myths of Blockchain Governance
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Blockchain technology promises to revolutionize governance through strong commitments, trustlessness, and transparency. This paper examines how these promises have failed to materialize in practice. Research Findings/Insights Drawing on case evidence from major blockchains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, I argue that ...
Daniel Ferreira
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Bank Technology M&As and Market Valuation: Lessons From the COVID‐19 Shock
ABSTRACT We study listed banks in 27 OECD countries that executed technology mergers and acquisitions (M&As) over the two decades spanning 1998–2019 and assess their market performance during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Our findings reveal a significant relationship between past bank technology acquisitions and market valuation when digital transformation ...
Claudia Curi +2 more
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On Measures for Digital Technologies in the Financial Sphere Regulation
Russia is actively engaged in the development of innovative technologies, which is confirmed by the adoption in July 2017 of the program «Digital Economy of the Russian Federation».
A. P. Isaev, Т. V. Vasilyeva
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