We review the emerging field of multiple issue e-auctions and discuss their design features and performance criteria. We primarily consider B2B transactions in a reverse auction, that is, a procurement setting. In traditional auctions, the matching of buyers and sellers is typically based just...

The use of robo-readers to analyze news texts is an emerging technology trend in computational finance. In recent research, a substantial effort has been invested to develop sophisticated financial polarity-lexicons that can be used to investigate how financial sentiments relate to future...

Online equity crowdfunding is a novel form of entrepreneurial finance, through which ventures can sell shares to large numbers of small investors. We analyze the motivations and decision criteria of equity crowdfunding investors using responses to a large-scale survey. We find, first, that...