This study reviews the literature of online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending from 2008 until 2020
as an emergent but fast spreading phenomenon in the context of digital finance. Previous …

Small businesses are significant to any economy from the perspective of employment and
contribution to the national gross domestic product. Despite their significance, small …

Purpose This contribution aims to evaluate key theoretical bases that were used in previous
research, to investigate the use of crowdfunding platforms by small businesses and startups …

Vulnerable social groups are often the recipients of statistical discrimination by financial
institutions. They therefor try to access the P2P lending market through voluntary digital …

While small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are important for economic growth and
employment, they face numerous obstacles in accessing external finance. In this article, we …

Drawing on institutional economics, this article investigates how different contexts condition
the prevalence of export-oriented entrepreneurship, which affects economic growth. We …

As a digital financial innovation, equity crowdfunding (ECF) allows investors to exploit the
complementarity of information provision and network effects in a reduced transaction cost …

The criteria for evaluating a crowdfunding project vary from person to person. Some
investors are concerned with the entrepreneurs' profiles, while others are more interested in …

In this paper, we examine the role of peer‐to‐peer (P2P) platforms in enhancing financial
inclusion from the borrowers' point of view across the rural–urban dimension. We show that …

Purpose Belonging to the financial technologies' companies, equity-based crowdfunding
platforms offer investors the opportunity to become shareholders through the purchase of …