This article surveys research on the effects of digitalization on access to finance. We focus
the review on access through fintech. We review the growth of three main fintech …

This paper provides a description of the crowdfunding sector, considering investment-based
crowdfunding platforms as well as platforms in which funders do not obtain monetary …

Several literature reviews on crowdfunding categorise crowdfunding research into different
perspectives but provide limited theory development. The social capital literature offers a …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of enterprise social media
(ESM) use on two trust dimensions–affect-based trust (ABT) and cognition-based trust (CBT) …

Banks have no time for complacency. They need to re-evaluate their competitive advantages
in light of profound changes driven by advances in information technology (IT) and …

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 …

Incentive-based forms of crowdfunding–such as reward-, equity-and lending-based
crowdfunding–are becoming increasingly popular. However, research that studies backers' …

This study reviews the literature of online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending from 2008 until 2020
as an emergent but fast spreading phenomenon in the context of digital finance. Previous …

Using a data set on individual investments in an online crowdfunding platform for mobile
applications, this study examines whether an early investor's experience within the platform …

This study employs a randomized field experiment to causally identify what type of signal is
likely to complement another signal in the context of financing technology ventures. The …