Overfunding and Signaling Effects of Herding Behavior in Crowdfunding
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Keywords
asymmetric information; crowdfunding; herding behavior; overfunding; peer-to-peer lending; signaling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C55 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis
- D26 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Crowd-Based Firms
- G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CFN-2020-01-13 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-NET-2020-01-13 (Network Economics)
- NEP-PAY-2020-01-13 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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