Should securities regulation promote equity crowdfunding?

Small Business Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 579-593

  Hornuf, Lars ^a,b   Schwienbacher, Armin ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Crowdinvesting; Equity crowdfunding; Investor protection; Securities regulation; Small business finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017141977     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-017-9839-9     Document Type: Article

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