How should crowdfunding platforms alleviate information asymmetry between creators and crowdfunders? In traditional financial markets, public companies are required to disclose potential risks to their investors, and such risk disclosure requirements are enforced by legal and fiduciary...

Topic modeling methods such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) are powerful tools for analyzing massive amounts of textual data. They have been extensively used in information systems and management research to identify latent topics for data exploration and as a feature-engineering mechanism...