Home Bias in Online Investments: An Empirical Study of an Online Crowdfunding Market

By Mingfeng Lin, S. Viswanathan. Management Sciences, 2016

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Marketing

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Reward-based crowdfunding of entrepreneurial projects: the effect of local altruism and localized social capital on proponents’ success (2017, positive): “…of the crowdfunding research, which has documented the existence of a home bias, i.e., the tendency of financial transactions to occur between parties that are geographically close (Lin and Viswanathan 2016), even for entrepreneurs who seek capital on the Internet (Agrawal et al. 2011, 2015).”
The emergence of the global fintech market: economic and technological determinants (2016, background): “have analyzed the geography of investor behavior (Lin and Viswanathan 2015), the likelihood of loan defaults (Serrano-Cinca et al.”
Is the crowd sensitive to distance?—how investment decisions differ by investor type (2017, positive): “Generally, the distance between investors and entrepreneurs is considered exogenous, but there are constellations in which one or another actively changes location (see Parwada 2008) or where unrelated moving impacts investment decisions (Lin and Viswanathan 2016).”
Research on Crowdfunding: Reviewing the (Very Recent) past and Celebrating the Present (2017, background): “Supporting the potential role of geography to better understand crowdfunding success, Lin and Viswanathan (2015) drew from research March, 2017 155 on home bias and found peer-to-peer lending transactions are more likely to occur when both parties are in the same geographical area.”
Dynamics of Lending-Based Prosocial Crowdfunding: Using a Social Responsibility Lens (2018, background): “…to online fundraising accessible to the general public, and which in general, seeks to provide financial resources to specific entrepreneurial projects or causes (see Burkett 2011; Lin and Viswanathan 2015; Mollick 2014; see Schwienbacher and Larralde 2010 for other complementary definitions).”