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

Measuring Behavior with AI

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

8:00am - 9:45am

Session Chair: Pablo Azar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Location: Aegean

Presentations

The Market's Mirror: Revealing Investor Disagreement with LLMs

Vineet Bhagwat¹, J. Anthony Cookson², Chukwuma Dim¹, Marina Niessner³

¹George Washington University; ²University of Colorado, Boulder; ³Indiana University

Discussant: Elham Tabatabaei (York University)

Bhagwat-459-The Markets Mirror.pdf

Awkward Silence: Is Manager Hesitation Informative?

Umit Kurucak

University of Texas at Dallas

Discussant: Diego García (University of Colorado Boulder)

Kurucak-1123-Awkward Silence.pdf

Just Look: Knowing Peers with Image Representation

Tomasz Kaczmarek², Kuntara Pukthuanthong¹

¹University of Missouri; ²Poznan University

Discussant: Pablo Azar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Kaczmarek-1093-Just Look.pdf