Faust, Luisa; Kolbe, Maura; Mansouri, Sasan; Momtaz, Paul P. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 3, pp. 1-29
? Specifically, we examine the effects of altruism on crowdfunding outcomes in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The main result …This paper introduces a machine learning approach to quantify altruism from the linguistic style of textual documents …. We apply our method to a central question in (social) entrepreneurship: How does altruism impact entrepreneurial success …