--- title: "Can Equity Crowdfunding Democratize Access to Capital and Investment Opportunities?" authors: ["Christian Catalini", "Catherine Fazio", "Fiona Murray"] venue: "MIT Innovation Initiative Policy Report" year: 2016 area: entrepreneurship featured: false links: pdf: "/s/Can-Equity-Crowdfunding-Democratize.pdf" preview: "/images/papers/can-equity-crowdfunding-democratize.png" abstract: "A policy report on whether equity crowdfunding can genuinely broaden who gets to finance — and invest in — early-stage ventures, and the investor-protection trade-offs regulators face in designing the rules that decide it." --- [Download the paper](/s/MIT_-Equity-Crowdfunding_Policy-Brief5162016.pdf)