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

Corporate Financing and Hedging

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

8:00am - 9:45am

Session Chair: Fotis Grigoris, University of Iowa

Location: Caribbean

Presentations

Public Debt and Private Investment: The Role of Firm Leverage

Alex Hsu¹, Altan Pazarbaşı², Andrea Tamoni³

¹Georgia Institute of Technology; ²University of Iowa; ³University of Notre Dame

Discussant: Michele Andreolli (Boston College)

Hsu-991-Public Debt and Private Investment.pdf

Financing and the Green Paradox

Rui Albuquerque¹, Mathias Kruttli², Yiding Ma³, Sumudu Watugala²

¹Boston College; ²Indiana University; ³Technical University of Denmark

Discussant: Christoph Herpfer (University of Virginia)

Albuquerque-643-Financing and the Green Paradox.pdf

The Economics of Financial and Operational Hedging: Insights from U.S. Power Plants

Alvin Chen¹, Ran Guo², Haohang Wu¹, Dong Yan²

¹Stockholm School of Economics; ²Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

Discussant: Ioannis Branikas (University of Oregon)

Chen-799-The Economics of Financial and Operational Hedging.pdf