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

Technology, Regulations, and Asset Prices

Time:

Thursday, 12/Mar/2026:

1:30pm - 3:15pm

Session Chair: Nancy Xu, Boston College

Location: Aegean

Presentations

Self-fulfilling Illiquidity and Market Collapse with (Seemingly Irrelevant) Price Controls

Jordan Martel¹, Edward Van Wesep², Brian Waters²

¹Indiana University Bloomington; ²University of Colorado Boulder

Discussant: Haaris Mateen (University of Houston)

Martel-186-Self-fulfilling Illiquidity and Market Collapse with.pdf

Technology Adoption, Market Power, and the Dual Dynamics of Value Premium and Markups

Xiaoji Lin¹, Chao Ying², Terry Zhang³

¹University of Minnesota; ²Chinese University of Hong Kong; ³Australian National University

Discussant: Xinwei Li (University of Texas at Dallas)

Lin-537-Technology Adoption, Market Power, and the Dual Dynamics.pdf

The Empirical Virtue of Complexity in Simple Economic Models

Kerry Back², Alexander Ober², Seth Pruitt¹

¹Arizona State University; ²Rice University

Discussant: Lukas Schmid (University of Southern California)

Back-660-The Empirical Virtue of Complexity in Simple Economic Models.pdf