Gender differences in the contribution patterns of equity-crowdfunding investors

Small Business Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 275-287

  Mohammadi, Ali ^a   Shafi, Kourosh ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Equity crowdfunding; Gender; Herding; Observational learning; Risk aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009892677     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-016-9825-7     Document Type: Article

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