The Economics of Crowdfunding: Startups, Portals and Investor Behavior

1: Introduction Part I Startups 2: Crowdfunding as a New Financing Tool 3: Signaling to Overcome Inefficiencies in Crowdfunding Markets 4: The Crowd-Entrepreneur Relationship in Startup Financing 5: Fraudulent Behavior by Entrepreneurs and Borrowers Part II Market Structure 6: Fintech and the Financing of SMEs and Entrepreneurs: From Crowdfunding to Marketplace Lending Part III Backers and Investors 7: Crowdfunding as a Font of Entrepreneurship: Outcomes of Reward-Based Crowdfunding 8: Crowdfunding Creative Ideas: The Dynamics of Project Backers Part IV Recent Regulatory Efforts 9: The Regulation of Crowdfunding in the United States. 10: The Regulation of Crowdfunding in Europe 11: Individual Investors' Access to Crowdinvesting: Two Regulatory Models.