Purpose The authors investigate whether matchings in equity crowdfunding are more likely
to happen if homophily exists between investors and investees. They focus on gender, age …

This paper investigates the investment decisions of professional and non-professional
investors and the role of three classes of factors, ie Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and disentangle the home bias in equity
crowdfunding to better understand irrational decision making of investors …

The financial market despite being hit by the digital revolution has only recently reached the
segment of direct investments on the part of non-professional investors in new ventures …

This study examines drivers of investment probability in equity-based crowdfunding using a
hand-collected and comprehensive data set from a well-established platform. The analysis …

Crowdfunding is helping to drive financial inclusion by expanding the availability of funds to
traditionally excluded and underserved groups of individuals, such as ethnic minority and …

Entrepreneurial decision-making is a complex area that impacts the creation and
development of new ventures and is one of the main subjects of entrepreneurial research …

Despite the omnipresent reach of the Internet, evidence exists that geography matters in
crowdfunding. This paper shows that some salient characteristics of the geographical area …

Enthusiasm for crowdfunding's ability to fill gaps in the provision of entrepreneurial finance
continues among academics, policymakers and practitioners. In this, increasing attention …

Emerging literature on crowdfunding, until now, is missing detailed empirical analyses on
profiles of “crowdfunders”. Our paper aims to address this shortage, analyzing geographical …