The economics of crowdfunding platforms

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-28

  Belleflamme, Paul ^a,b   Omrani, Nessrine ^c   Peitz, Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CESifo ^*  (Germany)

^c Paris School of Business   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Crowdfunding; Network effects; P2P lending; Platform markets

Indexed keywords

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; CROWDFUNDING; ECONOMIC FORCES; KEY FEATURE; NETWORK EFFECTS; P2P LENDING;

ECONOMICS;

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; ECONOMICS; INTERNET; INVESTMENT; MARKET;

EID: 84942779968     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2015.08.003     Document Type: Review

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