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The economics of crowdfunding platforms

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Belleflamme, Paul [UCL] Omrani, Nessrine Peitz, Martin

(eng) This paper provides a description of the crowdfunding sector, considering investment-based crowdfunding platforms as well as platforms in which funders do not obtain monetary payments. It lays out key features of this quickly developing sector and explores the economic forces at play that can explain the design of these platforms. In particular, it elaborates on cross-group and within-group external effects and asymmetric information on crowdfunding platforms.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article)
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2015
Language Anglais
Journal information "Information Economics and Policy" - Vol. 33, no.1, p. 11-28 (2015)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Elsevier BV * North-Holland (Amsterdam)
issn 0167-6245
e-issn 1873-5975
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/LIDAM/CORE - Center for operations research and econometrics
Keywords Platform markets ; Network effects ; Asymmetric information ; P2P lending
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Bibliographic reference Belleflamme, Paul ; Omrani, Nessrine ; Peitz, Martin. The economics of crowdfunding platforms. In: Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 33, no.1, p. 11-28 (2015)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/174808