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An Empirical Analysis of a Crowdfunding Platform

Author(s) -

JinHyuk Kim,

Peter Newberry,

Calvin Qiu

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

ssrn electronic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1556-5068

DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.2672075

Subject(s) - counterfactual thinking , observability , nothing , government (linguistics) , conditionality , quality (philosophy) , business , public economics , empirical research , economics , advertising , marketing , monetary economics , political science , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , epistemology , politics , law

Crowdfunding, a fundraising mechanism in which monetary contributions are raised from a large number of people, is booming and impacting government policy. We study two features of a well-known crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter.com. First, we study the role of observable information in determining whether or not a donor contributes to the project. Second, we study the effect of the all-or-nothing nature of donations. Our counterfactual analyses indicate that the observability of donor information increases the expected quality of funded projects while the conditionality of pledges decreases it.

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