CFP: Call for Papers - 3rd Annual Academic Symposium on Crowdfunding - Fung Institute, Kauffman Foundation, Haas School of Business

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From: Alex Krause [mailto:akrause at kauffman.org] 
Date: Wed 13 May 2015 15:47


THIRD ANNUAL ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM

Date / time: 
9.18.15 - 8:00am

THIRD ANNUAL ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM ON CROWDFUNDING

September 18th, 2015 @ UC Berkeley

We invite submissions for our third annual academic symposium on crowdfunding, sponsored by the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, UC Berkeley College of Engineering and the Finance Group and Center for Social Sector Leadership of the Haas School of Business.  We welcome submissions from a wide array of fields, including finance, innovation, entrepreneurship, regulation & law, economics, marketing, and big data strategy and technology.


The following list of topics may serve as a guide for submissions, but we welcome research papers that fit broadly within the discussion of crowdfunding and how it is evolving. Please send your paper submissions to Hazel Palaski by June 1, 2015: hpalaski at berkeley.edu.

. Funding Mechanisms and Patterns

. JOBS Act and Equity Crowdfunding

. Information Advantages in the Crowd

. Models of Startup/Angel Crowdfunding and Syndicates

. Consumer Behavior, Online Consumer Finance

. Disintermediation or Alternative Intermediation: The Role of Lending Portals

. Public Policy Issues from Online Consumer Finance and Syndicated Lending and Investing

. Legal Issues Surrounding General Solicitation and Investor Protection

. Crowd Investor Returns and Profiling of Crowd Investors

. Crowdfunding for International Development

. Crowdfunding by NGOs/Non-Profits/Social Ventures

. Rewards-based Crowdfunding and the Role in Market Research

. Geography of Crowdfunding, Clustering, Industry Concentration


Conference Chairs:

Adair Morse, Finance Group, Haas School of Business: morse at haas.berkeley.edu

Lee Fleming, Fung Institute: lfleming at ieor.berkeley.edu


Executive Committee:

Alicia Robb, Fung Institute & Kauffman Foundation: aliciarobb at berkeley.edu

Ben Mangan, Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas: mangan at haas.berkeley.edu

Hazel Palaski, Fung Institute: hpalaski at berkeley.edu

Olav Sorenson, Yale: olav.sorenson at yale.edu

Richard Swart, Fung Institute: rswart at berkeley.edu






Alex Krause
Research & Policy
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