Abstract:Home Bias is the recognized tendency of individuals to choose geographically proximate interaction partners. In business finance, Home Bias is to the detriment of both investors and entrepreneurs because it promotes an uneven distribution of capital and contributes to the Global Finance Gap. The aim of this thesis is to examine the existence of Home Bias in the emerging financing channel of reward-based crowdfunding. Crowdfunding, in general, is different from traditional financing because it shifts the entire… Show more
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