Introduction: What Is Equity Crowdfunding and How Can the Decision-Making Process of Retail Investors Be Outlined?

Francesco James Mazzocchini () and Caterina Lucarelli
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Francesco James Mazzocchini: Università Politecnica delle Marche

Chapter Chapter 1 in Investors’ Preferences in Financing New Ventures, 2023, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This section reveals the content of the manuscript and introduces the work, with a short description of motivation of the research based on theories of information driving demand and supply of capital within a FinTech environment; the section underlines the additional contribution of this research, given the chance to analyse and compare a large set of equity crowdfunding platforms worldwide.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial finance; FinTech; Equity crowdfunding; ECF platforms; Signalling theory; Observational learning theory; Herd behaviour; Information cascade; Data mining; New ventures success (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30058-5_1

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