Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights

Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights presents fundamental knowledge on this maturing economic field. Assembling and arranging datasets, case analyses, and other foundational materials on subjects associated with crowdfunding, the book systematically, comprehensively and authoritatively provides access to a consistent body of crowdfunding research. With the crowdfunding industry now consolidated, this core reference can serve as the basis for research projects and applied work.

Presents a complete scope of crowdfunding areas in the international landscape Combines economics with international business, management, law and finance Enables practitioners and researchers to compare regulatory frameworks, best practices and market opportunities Includes a freely available website of supplementary pedagogical material

Part 1: Introduction to Crowdfunding 1. Introduction 2. Overview of agency and signaling theory in crowdfunding 3. Overview of institutional contexts and empirical methods

Part 2: Rewards Crowdfunding 4. An overview of rewards-based crowdfunding 5. Crowdfunding models: Keep-it-all versus all-or-nothing 6. Crowdfunding cleantech 7. Crowdfunding to internationalize

Part 3: Crowdinvesting 8. Equity crowdfunding, valuation, and cases 9. Equity crowdfunding and governance 10. Signaling in equity crowdfunding 11. Are equity crowdfunders sensitive to distance? 12. Cash-clow and control rights in equity crowdfunding 13. Does equity crowdfunding democratize access to entrepreneurial finance? 14. Marketplace lending

Part 4: Crowdfunding Regulation and Policy 15. Introduction to crowdfunding regulation and policy 16. Demand-driven crowdfunding regulation 17. Public policy toward entrepreneurial finance: Spillovers and scale-up 18. Regulation and investment in fintech ventures 19. Crypto regulation 

Part 5: Conclusion 20. Summary, conclusion, and looking forward