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, 10:16:53am PDT

Session

Insurance Markets

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

1:30pm - 3:15pm

Session Chair: Irina Stefanescu, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Location: Pacific 2

Presentations

Beyond the Storm: Climate Risk and Insurers of Last Resort

Ankit Kalda¹, Varun Sharma¹, Vikas Soni², Derek Wenning¹

¹Indiana University; ²University of South Florida

Discussant: Emily Gallagher (University of Colorado Boulder)

Kalda-1162-Beyond the Storm.pdf

From Long to Short: How Interest Rates Shape Life Insurance Markets

Derek Wenning¹, Ziang Li²

¹Indiana University; ²Imperial College London

Discussant: Jakob Ahm Sørensen (Bocconi University)

Wenning-780-From Long to Short.pdf

The Evolution of Insurance Markets: Capital Regulation and Insurance Provision

Alexandru Barbu¹, Ishita Sen², David Humphry³

¹INSEAD; ²Harvard University; ³Bank of England

Discussant: Chotibhak Jotikasthira (Southern Methodist University)

Barbu-1029-The Evolution of Insurance Markets.pdf