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: 5th Aug 2026, 06:26:42pm PDT

Session

Financial Inclusion I

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

10:00am - 11:45am

Session Chair: Isaac Hacamo, Indiana University

Location: Bering

Presentations

Shedding Light on Bias: Consumer Complaint Disclosure and Racial Equity in Financial Services

Xiang Li¹, Ningzhe Zhou²

1: Fordham University; 2: Peking University

Discussant: Ramona Dagostino (University of Virginia)

Li-114-Shedding Light on Bias.pdf

Partisan Loan Officers and the Racial Gap in Mortgage Lending

Yongqiang Chu

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Discussant: Runjing Lu (University of Toronto)

Chu-765-Partisan Loan Officers and the Racial Gap in Mortgage Lending.pdf

Information Regimes and Financial Inclusion

Agustin Hurtado

University of Maryland

Discussant: Avantika Pal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Hurtado-1128-Information Regimes and Financial Inclusion.pdf