دانلود کتاب Investors’ Preferences in Financing New Ventures: A Data Mining Approach to Equity

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Acknowledgements Contents About the Authors List of Figures List of Tables 1 Introduction: What Is Equity Crowdfunding and How Can the Decision-Making Process of Retail Investors Be Outlined? References 2 About Entrepreneurial Finance and Factors Affecting Crowd-Investor Preferences 2.1 Entrepreneurial Finance 2.2 FinTech and Equity Crowdfunding 2.3 Information Asymmetry and Signalling Theory 2.4 The Actors in the Process 2.5 Platforms’ Isomorphism 2.6 Drivers for the Crowd-Investors’ Action and Preferences 2.6.1 Entrepreneur Financial, Human and Social Capital (K1) 2.6.2 Venture Characteristics (K2) 2.6.3 Campaign Characteristics (K3) 2.6.4 Investors’ Behaviour (K4/Y) 2.7 Research Questions and Research Hypotheses References 3 Definition and Description of the Analytical Process: A Data Mining Approach 3.1 The Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) 3.2 Data Scraping 3.3 Data Consolidation and Wrangling 3.4 Data Pre-processing 3.5 Cleaning Procedures in Practice 3.6 Data Analysis References 4 Sample Selection and Platform Characteristics 4.1 Platform Description 4.2 Variables Description 4.2.1 Dependent Variables 4.2.2 Independent Variables 4.3 Information Dissemination 4.3.1 Data Available Per Platform References 5 Data Analysis and Econometric Models 5.1 Review of the Main Findings from Literature 5.2 Methodology of Estimation References 6 Empirical Results 6.1 Description of the Sample 6.2 Exploratory Analysis 6.3 Determinants of ECF Success 6.3.1 Country-Level Analysis 6.3.2 Platform-Level Analysis 6.4 Discussion of Findings 6.4.1 Isomorphism Among ECF Platforms 6.4.1.1 First Piece of Evidence: Typologies of Public Information 6.4.1.2 Second Piece of Evidence: Trade-Off Between Breadth and Depth of Data 6.4.1.3 Third Piece of Evidence: Heterogeneous Projects Screening Procedures 6.4.1.4 Fourth Piece of Evidence: Heterogeneous Presence of Professional Investors 6.4.2 Investors’ Preferences in Financing New Ventures Through Equity Crowdfunding References 7 Conclusions and Contributions to Theory and Practice 7.1 Limitations of the Study 7.2 Theoretical and Practical Implications Appendix: Analytical Results of Estimations Country-Level Estimates Platform-Level Estimates Index