Does the Possibility to Make Equity Investments in Crowdfunding Projects Crowd Out Reward-Based Investments?

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 145-172

  Cholakova, Magdalena ^a   Clarysse, Bart ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84934283953     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ETAP.12139     Document Type: Article

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