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

Macroeconomic Factors and Cross-Market Asset Pricing

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Sang Byung Seo, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Location: Pacific 2

Presentations

The Effect of Fiscal Policy Shocks on Asset Prices

Courtney Wiegand

University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Wenhao Li (University of Southern California)

Wiegand-265-The Effect of Fiscal Policy Shocks on Asset Prices.pdf

Good Inflation, Bad Inflation, and the Dynamics of Credit Risk

Diego Bonelli¹, Berardino Palazzo², Ram Yamarthy²

¹Banco de España; ²Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant: Mohammad Ghaderi (University of Kansas)

Bonelli-460-Good Inflation, Bad Inflation, and the Dynamics of Credit Risk.pdf

Integrating Credit and Equity Markets: A Novel Benefit of Convertible Bonds

Alexey Ivashchenko, Rex Wang

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Discussant: Sebastien Plante (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Ivashchenko-384-Integrating Credit and Equity Markets.pdf