1.Introduction -- 2.Women in entrepreneurial finance: the academic perspective -- 3.Women in alternative finance: a focus on the equity crowdfunding -- 4.An empirical investigation on the Italian context -- 5.Conclusion. .

Blended finance programs combine public and private funding to ease credit constraints of specific firm segments. While rapidly gaining popularity, little evidence exists on their economic impact. To address this gap, we match credit registry data with firm-level tax records to trace out the...