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On Thursday, November 29th, FUNCAS organizes a public presentation of number 157 of its journal Papeles de Economia Española. This special issue entitled “Economic Analysis of the Digital Revolution” and associated digital e-book features a study of the current state of the academic literature on crowdfunding by Car3fin member Pablo Ruíz Verdú and Carlos Bellón (“Crowdfundig, what do we know?”).
The act will take place on FUNCAS Salón de Actos, at Edificio Foro, planta baja on Caballero de Gracia, 28 at 17:20.
Pablo Ruíz Verdú, amongst other contributors, will deliver a short presentation and a round table on the challenges of the [&hellip

On September 21st, jointly with the INDEM Institute, we host a Workshop on Early financing and Entrepreneurship in the Getafe campus of UC3M. The Workshop will include presentations by outstanding academics (Melissa Cardon, Ethan Mollick and Armin Schwienbacher) on the topic of crowdfunding and a final roundtable. For more information can to attend the workshop go to http://www.car3fin.es/earlyfinwork

Is crowd funding the best way to promote innovation? Clearly, there is something appealing about a start-up-based innovation strategy: it feels democratic, accessible, and so California. But it is definitely not the only way to boost research and development, or even the main way, and it is certainly not the way most major innovations in the US came about during the twentieth century. More information through this link   &nbsp

Democratising finance: The digital wealth management revolution Juergen Braunstein, Marion Laboure 11 November 2017 Despite specialised press coverage, little is known about the potential wider socioeconomic implications of digital wealth management solutions. This column examines how ‘robo-advisors’ offer an opportunity to democratise finance and decrease wealth inequality. These algorithmic investment advisors stand to disrupt the wealth management sector through their ‘low-cost, accessible to most’ business models. However, the entrance of traditional wealth managers into the robo-advisor market could threaten this disruption. http://voxeu.org/article/digital-wealth-management-revolution

Más New study from P. Boyallian (Lancaster) & P. Ruiz-Verdú (UC3M) reveals the role of leverage for the impact of CEO risk-taking incentives on the chances of bank failure during the 2007-10 crisis. https://academic.oup.com/rof/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rof/rfx051/4600197 … @UC3M_Business for new knowledge with impact and relevance! Traducir del inglés

The Second Issue of the 42nd Volume of the Journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice published March 2017 is dedicated entirely to crowdfunding research. A link to the papers can be found here

Facebook announced it’s expanding its set of online fundraising tools to include its own GoFundMe competitor, starting first in the U.S. The new tool will allow users to raise money for personal campaigns. In addition, the company is adding the ability for Facebook Pages to add a “donate” button to their live broadcasts on the network. This is not the first time Facebook has stepped into the fundraising space. In 2015, it debuted a Kickstarter-like feature aimed at nonprofits that allowed them to set up a campaign page, explain their goals and collect cash. Last year, the company expanded its [&hellip

Venture Capital has published a special issue (Volume 19, 2017 Issues 1 and 2) with the objetive of exploring the new and traditional sources of finance and suggest how these phenomena can extend entrepreneurial finance literature and guide new theory building. According to the issue introductory paper: “The proliferation of new sources of entrepreneurial finance potentially makes it easier for ventures to raise capital and grow. To date, entrepreneurial finance literature has developed a rich tradition of research on venture capital and angel finance. However, the emergence of “new” sources of finance, such as crowdfunding and the limited attention paid [&hellip

The Financial Times reports a signficant increase in institutional investors’ presence in crowdfunding deals, With deals involving institutional investors having quadrupled in the last two years, according to Crowdcube (a Crowdfunding platform). This growing interest follows the trend seen in the peer-to-peer lending space

The SEC released a white paper entitled “U.S. securities-based crowdfunding under Title III of the JOBS Act”, which analyzes crowdfunded offerings during the first six months following May 16, 2016 when Title III, Regulation Crowdfunding become official. The SEC’s white paper noted that the majority equity crowdfunding offerings to date have not utilized Regulation D as much as predicted. The full text of the report can be found here