Women in Alternative Finance: Exploring the Benefits of Equity Crowdfunding

Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
	References
2 Women in Entrepreneurial Finance: The Academic Perspective
	2.1 The Structural Factors
	2.2 The Psychological-Social Factors
		2.2.1 Empirical Evidence on Gender Funding Gap in Entrepreneurial Finance
	2.3 The EU Initiatives Supporting Female Entrepreneurs
	2.4 G7 Initiatives
	References
3 Women in Alternative Finance: A Focus on the Equity Crowdfunding
	3.1 Crowdfunding Overview
		3.1.1 Types of Crowdfunding
	3.2 Specific Features of the Equity Crowdfunding
	3.3 The Theory and the Empirical Evidence on the Role of Women in the Equity Crowdfunding
	References
4 An Empirical Investigation on the Italian Context
	4.1 The Italian Equity Crowdfunding Context
	4.2 The Italian Regulation
	4.3 The Empirical Analysis
		4.3.1 Sample and Data Sources
		4.3.2 Variables
		4.3.3 Univariate Analysis
		4.3.4 Estimation Model and Results
	4.4 Main Implications of Results
	References
5 Conclusions
References
Index