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1. Introduction
2. What is crowdfunding?
3. Crowdfunding models: complexity and uncertainty
4. Who cares about crowdfunding?
5. Why care about crowdfunding?
6. Numbers of crowdfunding investing platforms: 2012
7. Crowdfunding platforms types, as of April 2012
8. Research questions
9. Does equity crowdfunding “work”?
10. Motivating examples
11. Research hypotheses (H1-H3)
12. Research hypotheses (H4-H6)
13. Data collection (ASSOB)
14. Summary statistics (ASSOB data)
15. Success determinants of crowdfunding projects
16. Economic significance absolute funding amount
17. Determinants of the speed of capital allocation
18. Economic significance speed of capital allocation
19. Summary of main results
20. Is crowdfunding a ‘race-to-the top’?
21. Crowdfunding views in Canada
22. Competing predictions
23. Data (online survey)
24. Key outcome variables
25. Key explanatory variables
26. Summary of main findings
27. The economic implications of crowdfunding
28. Implications
29. Contact details

Topics Covered

• Does equity crowdfunding “work”? What determines success?
• Will the equity crowdfunding market (entrepreneurs, investors, portals, regulators) move to maximize the quality of the market (race-to-the top), or maximize self interests (race-to-the bottom)?
• What do the results to these questions imply for entrepreneurship and economic prosperity?

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• Corporate Financing

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• Finance, Accounting & Economics

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Publication History

• Published on October 7, 2014