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).

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 20th June 2026, 10:12:22am PDT

Session

Networks, Knowledge, and M&A Outcomes

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

8:00am - 9:45am

Session Chair: Liu Yang, University of Maryland

Location: Caspian

Presentations

Try Before You Buy: Measuring Innovation Synergy Using Textual Analysis

Haneul Yi

Truman State University

Discussant: Jing Xue (Georgia State University)

Yi-483-Try Before You Buy.pdf

Blockholder Networks, Information Exchange, and M&A Performance

Gishan Dissanaike¹, Wolfgang Drobetz², Marwin Moenkemeyer¹, Henning Schroeder³

¹University of Cambridge; ²University of Hamburg; ³Leuphana University

Discussant: Noah Stoffman (Indiana University)

Dissanaike-122-Blockholder Networks, Information Exchange, and M&A Performance.pdf

When Buy-and-Build Breaks: Serial Private Equity Acquisitions in the Hospital Industry

Sungil Kim

Duke University

Discussant: Janet Gao (Georgetown University)

Kim-183-When Buy-and-Build Breaks.pdf