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: 20th June 2026, 10:12:20am PDT

Session

Law, Information and Finance

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

10:00am - 11:45am

Session Chair: Stefan Zeume, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Location: Baltic

Presentations

Insider Trading Reforms and Corporate Transparency: Evidence from the STOCK Act

Amanda Heitz¹, Youan Wang², Zhige Yu²

¹Tulane University; ²Xiamen University

Discussant: Ruidi Huang (Southern Methodist University)

Heitz-154-Insider Trading Reforms and Corporate Transparency.pdf

Cracking Down, Pricing In: How AML Regulation Shapes Stock Price Responses

Johanna Barbara Stauder, Andrea Schertler

University of Graz, Austria

Discussant: Elizabeth Berger (University of Houston)

Stauder-774-Cracking Down, Pricing In.pdf

When Speaking Freely Pays: Anti-SLAPP Laws and Firms' Cost of Equity

Scott Guernsey¹, Matthew Serfling¹, Cheng Yan²

¹University of Tennessee; ²Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Discussant: Dominique Badoer (University of Illinois Chicago)

Guernsey-939-When Speaking Freely Pays.pdf