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The economics of crowdfunding : startups, portals and investor behavior /

Contributor(s): Cumming, Douglas [editor.] | Hornuf, Lars [editor.].
Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2018Description: xx, 283 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 3319661183; 9783319661186:; 9783319661186.Subject(s): Crowd funding | Business enterprises -- Finance | New business enterprises | EconomicsDDC classification: 658.15224 CUM
Contents:
Introduction / Douglas Cumming and Lars Hornuf -- Crowdfunding as a new financing tool / Gaël Leboeuf and Armin Schwienbacher -- Signaling to overcome inefficiencies in crowdfunding markets / Silvio Vismara -- The crowd-entrepreneur relationship in startup financing / Thomas Lambert, Aleksandrina Ralcheva, and Peter Roosenboom -- Fraudulent behavior by entrepreneurs and borrowers / Christa Hainz -- Fintech and the financing of SMEs and entrepreneurs : from crowdfunding to marketplace lending / Mark Fenwick, Joseph A. McGahery, and Erik P.M. Vermeulen -- Crowdfunding as a font of entrepreneurship : outcomes of reward-based crowdfunding / Ethan Mollick -- Crowdfunding creative ideas : the dynamics of project backers / Venkat Kuppuswamy and Barry L. Bayus -- The regulation of crowdfunding in the United States / C. Steven Bradford -- The regulation of crowdfunding in Europe / Lars Klöhn -- Individual investors' access to crowdinvesting : two regulatory models / John Armour adn Luca Enriques
Summary: This text focuses on various types of crowdfunding and the lessons learned from academic research. Crowdfunding, a new and important source of financing for entrepreneurs, fills a funding gap that was traditionally difficult to close. Chapters from expert contributors define and carefully evaluate the various market segments: donation-based and reward-based crowdfunding, crowdinvesting and crowdlending. They further provide an assessment of startups, market structure, as well as backers and investors for each segment.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Douglas Cumming and Lars Hornuf -- Crowdfunding as a new financing tool / Gaël Leboeuf and Armin Schwienbacher -- Signaling to overcome inefficiencies in crowdfunding markets / Silvio Vismara -- The crowd-entrepreneur relationship in startup financing / Thomas Lambert, Aleksandrina Ralcheva, and Peter Roosenboom -- Fraudulent behavior by entrepreneurs and borrowers / Christa Hainz -- Fintech and the financing of SMEs and entrepreneurs : from crowdfunding to marketplace lending / Mark Fenwick, Joseph A. McGahery, and Erik P.M. Vermeulen -- Crowdfunding as a font of entrepreneurship : outcomes of reward-based crowdfunding / Ethan Mollick -- Crowdfunding creative ideas : the dynamics of project backers / Venkat Kuppuswamy and Barry L. Bayus -- The regulation of crowdfunding in the United States / C. Steven Bradford -- The regulation of crowdfunding in Europe / Lars Klöhn -- Individual investors' access to crowdinvesting : two regulatory models / John Armour adn Luca Enriques

This text focuses on various types of crowdfunding and the lessons learned from academic research. Crowdfunding, a new and important source of financing for entrepreneurs, fills a funding gap that was traditionally difficult to close. Chapters from expert contributors define and carefully evaluate the various market segments: donation-based and reward-based crowdfunding, crowdinvesting and crowdlending. They further provide an assessment of startups, market structure, as well as backers and investors for each segment.

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