Home bias in online investments: An empirical study of an online crowdfunding market

Management Science

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1393-1414

  Lin, Mingfeng ^a   Viswanathan, Siva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral explanations; Crowdfunding; Home bias; Natural experiment; Peer to peer lending; Quasi experiment

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECONOMICS; FINANCE; INVESTMENTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PUBLIC POLICY;

BEHAVIORAL EXPLANATIONS; CROWDFUNDING; HOME BIAS; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; PEER-TO-PEER LENDING; QUASI-EXPERIMENTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84968919591     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2015.2206     Document Type: Article

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