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Information Intermediation in Opaque Markets: Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding Analyst Reports

25 January 2024

Governance and Success in US Securities-Based Crowdfunding

The securities-based regulation crowdfunding market in the United States has grown rapidly from $23 million of capital raised in 2016 to $244 million in 2020. Figure 1 below displays the...

Race To Top When Equity Crowdfunding Platforms Have Prescribed Gatekeeping Responsibilities: A Comparative Analysis of Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) Regulations

Providing small companies alternative ways to access capital has become especially important today, owing to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses. Equity Crowd-sourced Funding, also known as...

1 October 2021

Jonathan A Ande

Zehra G Kavame Eroglu

Preliminary Evidence Suggests That Female Entrepreneurs Raise Less Than Their Male Counterparts via US Equity Crowdfunding. Why?

Will crowdfunding ‘democratize’ investing and make startup capital available to a wider range of founders? Our preliminary study suggests that equity crowdfunding is not providing its expected benefits...

28 November 2018

Seth C. Oranburg

Mark Geiger

The Promise and Perils of Crowdfunding: Between Corporate Finance and Consumer Contracts

In the last few years, a new source of finance for start-ups, known as ‘crowdfunding’ (‘CF’), has become widely available. This involves raising capital from a large number of individuals,...

16 October 2017

Luca Enriques

John Armour

Equity Crowdfunding in Germany and the UK: Follow-up Funding and Firm Survival

Today, start-ups often obtain financing via the Internet. Under the equity crowdfunding (‘ECF’) model, non-sophisticated investors make many small contributions to a company and ultimately expect financial compensation. While only...

11 October 2017

Lars Hornuf

Matthias Schmitt

Managing the Risks of Equity Crowdfunding: Lessons from China

China is currently the world’s largest ECF market - market volume reached USD 948.26 million in 2015, exceeding that of both the US (USD 598.05 million) and the UK (USD...

21 February 2017

Lin Lin

A Place of Their Own: Crowds in the New Market for Equity Crowdfunding

For over eighty years, US security laws have focused on mandating disclosures to protect investors. The efficacy of this strategy has been hotly debated for decades. Equity crowdfunding as it...

14 November 2016

Seth C. Oranburg

Equity Crowdfunding in New Zealand: A Progressive Experiment

When the first part of New Zealand’s Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (‘the FMC Act’) came into force on 1 April 2014, a new regime for equity crowdfunding was introduced...

10 November 2016

Trish Keeper

Financial Contracting in Crowdinvesting: Lessons from the German Market

Much has been written about the regulation of crowdinvesting, and what determines funding success. However, relatively little is known about the contracts that form the basis of crowdinvesting. This is...

Information Intermediation in Opaque Markets: Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding Analyst Reports

Governance and Success in US Securities-Based Crowdfunding

Race To Top When Equity Crowdfunding Platforms Have Prescribed Gatekeeping Responsibilities: A Comparative Analysis of Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) Regulations

Preliminary Evidence Suggests That Female Entrepreneurs Raise Less Than Their Male Counterparts via US Equity Crowdfunding. Why?

The Promise and Perils of Crowdfunding: Between Corporate Finance and Consumer Contracts

Equity Crowdfunding in Germany and the UK: Follow-up Funding and Firm Survival

Managing the Risks of Equity Crowdfunding: Lessons from China

A Place of Their Own: Crowds in the New Market for Equity Crowdfunding

Equity Crowdfunding in New Zealand: A Progressive Experiment

Financial Contracting in Crowdinvesting: Lessons from the German Market

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