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: 20th June 2026, 09:09:14am PDT

Session

Information and Markets

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

1:30pm - 3:15pm

Session Chair: Russell Jame, University of Kentucky

Location: Caribbean

Presentations

AI Washing

Boyuan Li

University of Florida

Discussant: Michael Yip (University of Georgia)

Li-956-AI Washing.pdf

Organized Crime, Public Procurement, and Firms

Elena Stella

Northwestern University

Discussant: Pablo Slutzky (University of Maryland)

Stella-868-Organized Crime, Public Procurement, and Firms.pdf

Salient Cues of Economic Transitions in Analyst Forecasting: Evidence from the Electric Vehicle Era

Xueqing Geng¹, Jarrad Harford², Weikai Li³, Yonghao Zhai¹

¹Singapore Management University; ²University of Washington; ³City University of Hong Kong

Discussant: Feng Chi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Geng-335-Salient Cues of Economic Transitions in Analyst Forecasting.pdf