This study investigates the role of platform-mandated disclosure, firm and owner attributes and social networking activity on the success of crowdfunding campaigns. It is found that more stringent platform disclosure requirements and risk warnings are not associated with success of crowdfunding...

Governments, as dominant purchasers of goods and services, use procurement policy as a vehicle to facilitate the development ecosystem for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) (Ram and Smallbone, 2003). Historically, federal procurement policy has been viewed as a means to redress...

This paper quantifies the relative impacts of firm age and firm size on the probability of loan default. It is often believed that small firms are more informationally opaque than larger firms and, therefore, that that firm size is negatively correlated with credit risk. To be sure, the small...