
Crowdfunding
Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights
Description
Key Features
- Presents a complete scope of crowdfunding areas in the international landscape
- Combines economics with international business, management, law and finance
- Enables practitioners and researchers to compare regulatory frameworks, best practices and market opportunities
- Includes a freely available website of supplementary pedagogical material
Readership
Graduate students and professionals working in the economics of crowdfunding and, more generally, entrepreneurship
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction to Crowdfunding
1. Introduction
2. Overview of agency and signaling theory in crowdfunding
3. Overview of institutional contexts and empirical methodsPart 2: Rewards Crowdfunding
4. An overview of rewards-based crowdfunding
5. Crowdfunding models: Keep-it-all versus all-or-nothing
6. Crowdfunding cleantech
7. Crowdfunding to internationalizePart 3: Crowdinvesting
8. Equity crowdfunding, valuation, and cases
9. Equity crowdfunding and governance
10. Signaling in equity crowdfunding
11. Are equity crowdfunders sensitive to distance?
12. Cash-clow and control rights in equity crowdfunding
13. Does equity crowdfunding democratize access to entrepreneurial finance?
14. Marketplace lendingPart 4: Crowdfunding Regulation and Policy
15. Introduction to crowdfunding regulation and policy
16. Demand-driven crowdfunding regulation
17. Public policy toward entrepreneurial finance: Spillovers and scale-up
18. Regulation and investment in fintech ventures
19. Crypto regulationPart 5: Conclusion
20. Summary, conclusion, and looking forward
Product details
- No. of pages: 506
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: December 2, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128146378
- eBook ISBN: 9780128146385
About the Authors
Douglas Cumming

Affiliations and Expertise
Sofia Johan
