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contrasts with the traditional ‘law and finance' view that stronger investor protection is better. This situation is … availability of alternative early-stage financing such as venture capital and angel finance. Finally, we offer exploratory evidence … from Germany on the impact of securities regulation on small business finance …
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Equity crowdfunding is a new form of entrepreneurial finance, in which investors do not receive perks or engage in pre …
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We use hand-collected data from four German crowdinvesting portals to analyze what determines individual investment decisions in crowdinvesting. In contrast with the crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter where the typical pattern of project support is U-shaped, we find crowdinvesting dynamics to...
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The present article gives an overview of the contents of crowdinvesting contracts that are in use in Germany and traces how they have evolved. To this end, it evaluates 255 crowdinvesting campaigns held on 18 different platforms in the period from August 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015. This sample...
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Peer-to-business lending refers to online platforms facilitating loans from individuals to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We conjecture that easy-to-understand risk ratings conveyed by the platform play a pronounced role in influencing the borrowing success of SMEs and that more...
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Research Summary: When evaluating Internet-based loan project of small and medium size firms (SME), lenders can rely on easy-to-understand risk ratings or more sophisticated financial information. We investigate lenders decisions and its effect on loan funding success on the marketplace lending...
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participate. Moreover, the use of the partiarisches Darlehen (a specific form of equity-linked notes not subject to prospectus …
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