Since decades, the financial industry has experienced a continuous evolution in service
delivery due to digitalization. This evolution is characterized by expanded connectivity and …

Can peer-to-peer lending (P2P) disintermediate and mitigate information frictions in lending
so that choices and outcomes for at least some borrowers and investors are improved? I …

It is not surprising that the financing of early-stage creative projects and ventures is typically
geographically localized since these types of funding decisions are usually predicated on …

With crowdfunding, an entrepreneur raises external financing from a large audience (the
“crowd”), in which each individual provides a very small amount, instead of soliciting a small …

Studies on the impact of group–based financing on women entrepreneurs in the developing
world are underrepresented in entrepreneurship research. With this exploratory study, we …

This study investigates small businesses' financing decisions. Drawing upon asymmetric
information theory, institutional theory and relevant literature on cognitive financial …

This paper offers a framework to understand informal financing based on mechanisms to
deal with asymmetric information and enforcement. We find that constructive informal …

ABSTRACT In Silicon Valley, the most important thing to think about when starting a
company is how you're going to end it. The venture capital funding model that dominates the …

We explore how variation in entrepreneurs' displayed passion affects informal investor
interest in start-up ventures by examining neural responses to entrepreneurs' pitches using …

Provision of low-cost credit to the poor through self-help groups (SHGs) has been embraced
as a key poverty-reduction strategy in developing countries, but evidence on the impact of …