In this article, we examine how investor motives affect investment behavior in equity crowdfunding. In particular, we … compare the investment behavior of sustainability-oriented with ordinary crowd investors on six leading equity crowdfunding … Dorfleitner et al. (2019). In general, we find evidence of a default shock in equity crowdfunding that occurs immediately after …

Crowdfunding provides innovation in enabling entrepreneurs to contract with consumers before investment. Under … information threatens this benefit. Despite these threats, popular crowdfunding schemes are able to implement optimal screening … mechanisms. Crowdfunding's after-markets enable consumers to actively implement deferred payments and thereby optimally manage …