This paper investigates three areas of corporate finance, and the role of alternative finance
in contributing to our understanding of these areas. First, we look at disclosure, information …

Purpose: FinTech is exploding all over the world. FinTech companies play a critical role in
growing the banking industry. This chapter reviews existing literature on FinTech in banking …

Drawing on language expectancy theory, we predict that linguistic errors in ICO white
papers negatively impact investors' willingness to financially contribute to ICO projects. We …

Corporate risk‐taking is key to a firm's ability to achieve competitive advantages. Drawing on
the attention‐based view and the information‐processing perspective, we argue that firms …

In this work, we systematically investigate the pricing mechanism change from auction to big
data pricing on one of the major marketplace lending platforms in China. We find that big …

We conjecture that marketplace lending provokes an increase in the quantity of
entrepreneurship, particularly in more regionally disadvantaged areas, albeit at lower …

The advancement of the crowdfunding market blurs the boundary of individuals' private and
public spheres, but how privacy concerns affect an individual's revealing of private …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of success in peer-to-peer
(P2P) lending campaigns, especially amid global financial disruptions like the COVID-19 …

This study investigates the influence of social media information disclosure on crowdfunding
rates. Using a sample of 1,844 projects from a music crowdfunding platform in China, we …

This paper investigates three areas of corporate finance, and the role of alternative finance
in contributing to our understanding of these areas. First, we look at disclosure, information …