When the crowd becomes shareholder: an enquiry on Italian Equity Crowdfunding initiatives

This thesis aims at providing a valuable contribution in the field of Italian Equity Crowdfunding, which is currently experiencing its most successful period and consequently is being characterized by continuous updates in recorded volumes; symptomatically, the amount of equity subscribed in the first nine months of 2017 has already overcome the whole subscriptions obtained since the first deal has been hosted in 2014. The main research areas that have been covered consist in the platforms’ ecosystem and the whole Italian ECF campaigns launched until September 2017; for both of them descriptive and statistical analyses have been conducted, aiming at representing in the most effective way the current status of pla