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: 5th Aug 2026, 06:21:18pm PDT

Session

Payment Systems

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Thomas Flanagan, Ohio State University

Location: Pacific 1

Presentations

Financial Technologies, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems

Jacelly Cespedes¹, Carlos Burga², Carlos Parra², Bernardo Ricca³

1: University of Minnesota; 2: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 3: Insper

Discussant: Susan Cherry (University of Texas at Austin)

Cespedes-261-Financial Technologies, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality.pdf

Integrating Fragmented Networks: Interoperability in Money and Payments

Alexander Copestake¹, Divya Kirti¹, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria¹, Yao Zeng²

1: International Monetary Fund; 2: University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Nishant Vats (Washington University in St. Louis)

Copestake-666-Integrating Fragmented Networks.pdf

Who Pays for Payments? Consumer Sorting, Fee Heterogeneity, and Passthrough

Mark Egan¹, Gregor Matvos², Amit Seru³, Lulu Wang², Vincent Yao⁴

1: Harvard University; 2: Northwestern University; 3: Stanford University; 4: Georgia State University

Discussant: Carlo Wix (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Egan-1122-Who Pays for Payments_ Consumer Sorting, Fee Heterogeneity, and Passthrough.pdf