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: 17th Jan 2026, 01:28:15am PST

Session Overview

Session

Investor Behavior

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

1:30pm - 3:15pm

Session Chair: Dexin Zhou

Location: Aegean

Presentations

Pass-through Mutual Funds, Flow of Funds, and Low-Risk Anomaly

Seokwoo Lee¹, Matthew Linn²

¹University of Maryland; ²University of Massachusetts

Discussant: Xindi He (Georgia Institute of Technology)

When Retail Meets Informed: How News Days Drive Retail Losses

Azi Ben-Rephael¹, Vincent Bogousslavsky², Dmitriy Muravyev³

¹Rutgers University; ²Boston College; ³University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Discussant: Ferhat Akbas (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Shadow of Loss: Mutual Fund Tail Behavior and Investor Flows

Yong Chen¹, Wenting Dai²

¹Texas A&M University; ²Nankai University

Discussant: Yijun Zhou (Florida State University)