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

Information Intermediaries in Financial Markets

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

10:00am - 11:45am

Session Chair: Alessio Piccolo, Indiana University

Location: Adriatic

Presentations

Shareholder Democracy and the Market for Voting Advice

Odilon Camara¹, John Matsusaka¹, Chong Shu²

¹University of Southern California; ²University of Utah

Discussant: Markus Parlasca (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Camara-153-Shareholder Democracy and the Market for Voting Advice.pdf

The Gatekeeping Expert's Dilemma

Shunsuke Matsuno

Columbia University

Discussant: Nicolas Inostroza (University of Toronto)

Matsuno-917-The Gatekeeping Experts Dilemma.pdf

Information Externalities in Opaque Credit Markets

Mayar Sefidgaran¹, Gregory Weitzner²

¹Baylor University; ²McGill University

Discussant: Pavel Zryumov (University of Rochester)

Sefidgaran-111-Information Externalities in Opaque Credit Markets.pdf