Online equity crowdfunding is a novel form of entrepreneurial finance, through which ventures can sell shares to large numbers of small investors. We analyze the motivations and decision criteria of equity crowdfunding investors using responses to a large-scale survey. We find, first, that...

This study investigates whether the market's perception of auditor quality makes a difference to the market value of a firm using a sample of 1 915 takeover offers in the USA over the period 1990 to 2005. The study finds, as hypothesised, that the takeover process makes a smaller correction to...