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

Corporate Investment and Financing

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

8:00am - 9:45am

Session Chair: Vijay Yerramilli, University of Houston

Location: Adriatic

Presentations

Boards as Contracting Intermediaries: Evidence from Board-Interlocking Firms in the Credit Market

Chang Suk Bae

Tulane University

Discussant: Felipe Cabezón (Virginia Tech)

Bae-1030-Boards as Contracting Intermediaries.pdf

Internal Capital Markets and Production Disruptions

Majid Darvishan¹, Charles Hadlock², Manoj Kulchania³, Shawn Thomas²

¹Indiana University; ²University of Pittsburgh; ³Wayne State University

Discussant: Eshwar Venugopal (University of Alabama)

Darvishan-770-Internal Capital Markets and Production Disruptions.pdf

Impact of Risk Management on Product Offerings: Evidence from the Insurance Industry

Cameron Ellis¹, Andrew Ellul², Chotibhak Jotikasthira³, Jianren Xu⁴

¹University of Iowa; ²Indiana University; ³Southern Methodist University; ⁴University of North Texas

Discussant: Sharjil Haque (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Ellis-844-Impact of Risk Management on Product Offerings.pdf