This paper measures the indirect impacts of financial globalization using the extent to which corporate growth opportunities — especially those of small-size companies — are country-specific. Using data for 53,365 firms from 40 countries over the period of 1991-2012, we find that the...

This Article provides a comprehensive review of the crowdfunding phenomenon. It argues that equity crowdfunding (ECF) and, to a lesser extent, peer-to-peer lending (P2PL) offer the possibility of a global solution to the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) funding problem. In the United...