This paper examines whether solo founders are more likely to succeed in an initial equity crowdfunding (ECF) campaign and are subsequently less likely to fail than founder teams for a large sample of initial ECF campaigns conducted on the three largest UK platforms: Crowdcube, Seedrs and...

We investigate the entry, exit and growth of commercial banks in the United States (US) during the period 1984-2012. Hazard function estimations for the probability of exit via acquisition and failure, and cross-sectional growth regressions examine the impact of exit through merger and...