Crowdfunding has become important in recent years. However, there is no comprehensive
overview of the economic literature on this topic. This paper provides an overview of …

Equity crowdfunding has emerged as a new landscape for financing ideas and innovations.
While a number of countries has come a long way and developed equity crowdfunding …

Digital technologies have nowadays a significant impact on how new business ventures are
imagined and created. The arising technology paradigm is leveraging the potential of …

An extensive literature in economics and finance has documented home bias, the tendency
that transactions are more likely to occur between parties in the same geographical area …

Online crowdfunding has received a great deal of attention as a promising avenue to
fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. Because online settings bring increased visibility …

Crowdfunding has grown quickly and attracted significant scholarly attention. However, the
diverse approaches to crowdfunding that have emerged, as well as the uncertain …

Crowdfunding, the raising of capital from a large and diverse pool of donors via online
platforms, has grown exponentially in the past five years, spurred by the rise of Kickstarter …

The use of crowdfunding as a funding method has increased considerably over the last
decade. However, competition for crowdfunding money is tough, and goal setting is critical …

While current research treats the crowdfunders as a homogeneous group, we argue that
such an assumption may limit our understanding of the complexities of the crowdfunder …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which rewards-based
crowdfunding really does provide financial support for start-ups and small businesses …