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).

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 5th Aug 2026, 05:18:35pm PDT

Session

Funds and Corporate Governance

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

8:00am - 9:45am

Session Chair: Irene Yi, University of Toronto

Location: Baltic

Presentations

All Shareholder Votes Are Not Created Equal

Davidson Heath¹, Da Huang², Chong Shu¹

1: University of Utah; 2: Northeastern University

Discussant: Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College)

Heath-138-All Shareholder Votes Are Not Created Equal.pdf

Fund Proliferation, Decentralization, and Shareholder Power

Andrey Malenko¹, Nadya Malenko¹, Anton Tsoy²

1: Boston College; 2: University of Toronto

Discussant: Ehsan Azarmsa (University of Illinois Chicago)

Malenko-377-Fund Proliferation, Decentralization, and Shareholder Power.pdf

Control Rights or Wrongs? Active versus Index Governance

David K. Musto¹, Anne M. Tucker², Begum Ipek Yavuz³

1: University of Pennsylvania; 2: University of Georgia; 3: McGill University

Discussant: Tor-Erik Bakke (University of Illinois Chicago)

Musto-620-Control Rights or Wrongs_ Active versus Index Governance.pdf