2026 Midwest Finance Annual Meeting

March 12-14, 2026

Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, IL

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Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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Session

Liquidity, Fragility, and Monetary Transmission

Time:

Thursday, 12/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Andrew Winton, University of Minnesota

Location: Caspian

Presentations

Municipal Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission

Igor Cunha, Michael Varley

University of Kentucky

Discussant: Haaris Mateen (University of Houston)

Cunha-405-Municipal Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission.pdf

What Quantity of Reserves Is Sufficient?

Yilin {David} Yang

University of Minnesota

Discussant: Jay Kahn (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Yang-707-What Quantity of Reserves Is Sufficient_.pdf

Bank Lending Fragility After Mergers

Jeffrey Jou¹, Teng Wang², Jeff Zhang³

1: University of Pennsylvania; 2: University of Texas at Arlington; 3: University of Michigan

Discussant: Andrew MacKinlay (Louisiana State University)

Jou-1105-Bank Lending Fragility After Mergers.pdf