期刊
JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE
卷 50, 期 -, 页码 556-574出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.08.009
关键词
Equity crowdfunding; Crowdinvesting; Startups; Securities issuance; Investment dynamics; Entrepreneurial finance
资金
- German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [HO 5296/1-1]
Equity crowdfunding is a new form of entrepreneurial finance, in which investors do not receive perks or engage in pre-purchase of the product, but rather participate in the future cash flows of a firm. In this paper, we analyze what determines individual investment decisions in this new financial market. One important factor that may influence the behavior of investors is the way the portal allocates securities. We use unique data from four German equity crowdfunding portals to examine how the allocation mechanism affects funding dynamics. In contrast with the crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter, on which the typical pattern of project support is U shaped, we find that equity crowdfunding dynamics are L shaped under a first-come, first-served mechanism and U shaped under a second-price auction. The evidence also shows that investors base their decisions on information provided by the entrepreneur in the form of updates as well as by the investment behavior and comments of other crowd investors. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
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