Pricing shares in equity crowdfunding

Small Business Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 795-811

  Hornuf, Lars ^a,b   Neuenkirch, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION AND COMPETITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auctions; Equity crowdfunding; Valuation of shares

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992366074     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-016-9807-9     Document Type: Article

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