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 Overview

Session

ESG and Strategic Firm Choices

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

10:00am - 11:45am

Session Chair: Zoey Zhou, Columbia University

Location: Baltic

Presentations

Do Firms Become More Socially Responsible Reacting to School Shootings?

Jisok Kang¹, Hui Xu²

¹John Carroll University; ²Lancaster University

Discussant: Zhanhui Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Kang-409-Do Firms Become More Socially Responsible Reacting.pdf

Temperature, Adaptation, and Local Industry Concentration

Jacopo Ponticelli², Qiping Xu¹, Stefan Zeume¹

¹University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; ²Northwestern University

Discussant: Andrew Hultgren (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Ponticelli-777-Temperature, Adaptation, and Local Industry Concentration.pdf

Two Centuries of U.S. Innovation: Firms' Internal Networks and Resilience to Disasters

Mathias Kruttli, Noah Stoffman, Sumudu Watugala

Indiana University

Discussant: Jiajie Xu (University of Iowa)

Kruttli-873-Two Centuries of US Innovation.pdf