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

Bond Pricing and Returns

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

1:30pm - 3:15pm

Session Chair: Brian Henderson, George Washington University

Location: Baltic

Presentations

Breaking the Tension: Almost Affine Term Structure Models with Stochastic Volatility

Anh Le¹, Scott Joslin²

¹Pennsylvania State University; ²University of Southern California

Discussant: Hitesh Doshi (University of Houston)

Le-203-Breaking the Tension.pdf

Opaque Markets, Visible Jobs: Real-Time Labor Demand and Municipal Finance

Stephanie Cheng¹, Shushu Jiang², Xinjie Ma³

¹Tulane University; ²National University of Singapore; ³University of Iowa

Discussant: Matt Fleckenstein (University of Delaware)

Cheng-541-Opaque Markets, Visible Jobs.pdf

Pricing of Corporate Bonds: Evidence From a Century-Long Cross-Section

Mohammad Ghaderi¹, Nikolai Roussanov², Sebastien Plante³, Sang Byung Seo³

¹University of Kansas; ²University of Pennsylvania; ³University of Wisconsin–Madison

Discussant: Nan Qin (Northern Illinois University)

Ghaderi-672-Pricing of Corporate Bonds.pdf