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

Seniority, Collateral, and Adverse Selection in Lending Markets

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

10:00am - 11:45am

Session Chair: Gunjan Seth, University of Southern California

Location: Caspian

Presentations

Screening in Loan Guarantee Programs: Combining Contract Menus with Information Collection

Yusik Kim

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant: Thomas Flanagan (Ohio State University)

Kim-640-Screening in Loan Guarantee Programs.pdf

Where Collateral Sleeps

Gary Gorton¹, Chase Ross², Sharon Ross²

¹Yale University; ²Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant: Brian Jonghwan Lee (Emory University)

Gorton-802-Where Collateral Sleeps.pdf

Competing for Loan Informal Seniority: Theory and Evidence

Theo Martins¹, Bernardo Ricca², Arthur Taburet³

¹Central Bank of Brazil; ²Insper; ³Duke University

Discussant: Dimas Mateus Fazio (National University of Singapore)

Martins-979-Competing for Loan Informal Seniority.pdf