The paper presents a two-period Walrasian financial market model composed of informed and uninformed rational investors, and noise traders. The rational investors maximize second period consumption utility from the payoffs of trading risk-free holdings to risky assets in the first period. The...

Although the theme of the monograph is primarily related to "Applied Econometrics", there are several theoretical contributions that are associated with empirical examples, or directions in which the novel theoretical ideas might be applied. The monograph is associated with significant and novel...

This study quantitatively discusses the relationship among venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and crowdfunders. It considers the effectiveness of venture capital on the performance of crowdfunding campaigns started by entrepreneurs. Specifically, we split 274,220 crowdfunding projects into...