Konferenzbeitrag

ICO analysts

Freelancing human experts play an important role in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Expert ratings partially reflect the reciprocal network of ICO members and analysts. Ratings predict ICO success, but highly imperfectly so. Favorably rated ICOs tend to fail when more ratings reciprocate prior ratings. Failure despite strong ratings is also frequent when analysts have a history of optimism, and when reviews strike a particulary positive tone. These findings help illuminate the workings of ICOs for funding new ventures, and the rich data and the specific institutional setup also yield insights pertinent to the literature on equity analysts and rating agencies.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2021: Climate Economics

Classification
Wirtschaft
Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage; Ratings and Ratings Agencies
Entrepreneurship
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Subject
Analysts
Asymmetric Information
FinTech
Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Barth, Andreas
Laturnus, Valerie
Mansouri, Sasan
Wagner, Alexander
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(where)
Kiel, Hamburg
(when)
2021

Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Konferenzbeitrag

Associated

  • Barth, Andreas
  • Laturnus, Valerie
  • Mansouri, Sasan
  • Wagner, Alexander
  • ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Time of origin

  • 2021

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