2026 Midwest Finance Annual Meeting

March 12-14, 2026

Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, IL

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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Session

Expectations and Banking

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Dejanir Silva, Purdue University

Location: Pacific 2

Presentations

Granular Markups and Inflation Surge: the role of managerial incentives

Yuchen Chen¹, Juliana Salomao², Varun Sharma³, Yicheng Wang²

¹University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; ²University of Minnesota; ³Indiana University

Discussant: Simcha Barkai (Boston College)

Chen-204-Granular Markups and Inflation Surge.pdf

Global Banks’ Macroeconomic Expectations and Credit Supply

Xiang Li¹, Steven Ongena²

¹Halle Institute for Economic Research and Leipzig University; ²Zurich University

Discussant: Ricardo De la O (University of Southern California)

Li-528-Global Banks’ Macroeconomic Expectations and Credit Supply.pdf

Banking on Inattention

Xu Lu¹, Lingxuan Wu²

¹University of Washington; ²New York University

Discussant: William Diamond (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Lu-634-Banking on Inattention.pdf