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

Market Design Across Financial Products

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

1:30pm - 3:15pm

Session Chair: Lulu Wang, Northwestern University

Location: Bering

Presentations

Deposit Competition Beyond Rates

Matteo Benetton¹, Benjamin Hebert², Timothy McQuade³

¹University of California, Berkeley; ²Stanford University; ³University of California, Berkeley

Discussant: Quinn Maingi (University of Southern California)

Benetton-597-Deposit Competition Beyond Rates.pdf

Labor Market Polarization and Student Debt

Sanket Korgaonkar¹, Elena Loutskina¹, Constantine Yannelis²

¹University of Virginia; ²University of Cambridge

Discussant: Michael Blank (Stanford University)

Korgaonkar-662-Labor Market Polarization and Student Debt.pdf

Selection through Lapsation in Life Insurance Markets

Cameron Ellis¹, Johannes Jaspersen²

¹University of Iowa; ²Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Discussant: Ralf Meisenzahl (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Ellis-840-Selection through Lapsation in Life Insurance Markets.pdf