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

Doctoral Symposium - Corporate Finance

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

1:30pm - 3:15pm

Session Chair: Andres Almazan, University of Texas at Austin

Location: Adriatic

Presentations

Bridging Markets: Equity Investors' Dual Roles in Corporate Debt Financing

Jing Gao

University of Minnesota

Discussant: Pradeep Muthukrishnan (Tulane University)

Gao-191-Bridging Markets.pdf

Corporate Finance in the Subscription Economy

Matthew Hagerty

Boston College

Discussant: Brian Waters (University of Colorado Boulder)

Hagerty-378-Corporate Finance in the Subscription Economy.pdf

Financing Risk and Startup Growth

Xugan Chen

Yale University

Discussant: Andrea Gamba (WBS - University of Warwick)

Chen-667-Financing Risk and Startup Growth.pdf