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

Regulation, Private Capital, and Banks

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Shohini Kundu, University of California, Los Angeles

Location: Pacific 1

Presentations

The Private Equity Experiment of U.S. Banking Industry

Michal Kowalik², Gokhan Torna¹

¹Stony Brook University; ²Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Discussant: Young Soo Jang (Pennsylvania State University)

Kowalik-119-The Private Equity Experiment of US Banking Industry.pdf

Institutional Investor Protection: Evidence from Conflict-of-Interest Regulation in Private Equity

Yina Yang

Harvard University

Discussant: Gunjan Seth (University of Southern California)

Yang-462-Institutional Investor Protection.pdf

Banks on the Block: Branch Proximity and Small Business Performance

Vojislav Maksimovic, Elliot Oh, Liu Yang

University of Maryland

Discussant: Stefan Walz (Boston College)

Maksimovic-866-Banks on the Block.pdf