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: 6th Mar 2026, 07:49:17pm PST

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Session Overview

Session

Distortions and Allocations in the Labor Market

Time:

Thursday, 12/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Janet Gao, Georgetown University

Location: Adriatic

Presentations

Stock Price Shocks and Skill Demand

Yao Lu¹, Liu Yang², Yeqing Zhang³

¹Tsinghua University; ²University of Maryland; ³Central University of Finance and Economics

Discussant: Jessica Bai (Georgetown University)

Lu-317-Stock Price Shocks and Skill Demand.pdf

How Bankers’ Outside Options Affect Financial Risk

Valentin Kecht, Georg Schneider

University of Bonn

Discussant: Ruidi Huang (Southern Methodist University)

Kecht-790-How Bankers’ Outside Options Affect Financial Risk.pdf

Old Workers, New Capital

Philippe d’Astous¹, Thomas Geelen², Jakub Hajda¹

¹HEC Montreal; ²Pennsylvania State University

Discussant: Abhinav Gupta (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

d’Astous-217-Old Workers, New Capital.pdf