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

The Real Effects of Polarization and Partisanship

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Runjing Lu, University of Toronto

Location: Caspian

Presentations

Partisan Borders: Political Ideology and Frictions in Interstate Job-to-Job Flows

Brooke Wang

Miami University

Discussant: Wanyi Wang (Babson College)

Wang-673-Partisan Borders.pdf

Fiscal Risk Perception: Evidence from Analyst Forecasts

Nancy Xu¹, Yuxi Yang², Yang You²

¹Boston College; ²University of Hong Kong

Discussant: Matthew Denes (Carnegie Mellon University)

Xu-701-Fiscal Risk Perception.pdf

Political Polarization and Corporate Investment

Julian Atanassov¹, Brandon Julio², Tiecheng Leng³, Qiaoqiao Zhu⁴

¹University of Nebraska; ²University of Oregon; ³Harbin Institute of Technology; ⁴Australian National University

Discussant: Ramona Dagostino (University of Virginia)

Atanassov-826-Political Polarization and Corporate Investment.pdf