the special issue of Small Business Economics focus on crowdfunding (CF) and initial coin offerings (ICOs), which are two …

Medical crowdfunding is the practice of using websites to raise money from donors to pay for medical care or related … expenses. While in terms of overall funding volume, medical crowdfunding should still be considered as a niche phenomenon, it … financing. Examining the worldwide population of healthcare crowdfunding platforms, this study is the first to offer global and …

This manuscript positions the study of signals in crowdfunding within the broader literature on signaling in … entrepreneurial finance. I deliver a theoretical discussion and definition of signals in crowdfunding, including examples of penalty … classified in this taxonomy based on the definitions of reward- and donation-based crowdfunding, crowd-investing, and crowd …

Despite the growing popularity of investment-based crowdfunding, we know little about what platforms do before the … campaign. This is one of the first studies to provide cross-platform evidence on investment-based crowdfunding. First, we … describe the regulation and development over time of investment-based crowdfunding markets in France, Italy, Germany and the UK …

This paper investigates whether gender, age, ethnicity, and geography affect the choice of equity crowdfunding … both more likely to launch equity crowdfunding offerings than IPOs, and have higher chances to successfully complete an … equity crowdfunding offering. Remotely located companies are more likely to launch equity crowdfunding offerings than IPOs …