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: 6th Mar 2026, 11:08:53pm PST

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Session Overview

Session

Trading Corporate Debt

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Pankaj Jain, University of Memphis

Location: Pacific 3

Presentations

Bond Valuation Dispersion and ETF Arbitrage

Alan Guoming Huang³, Russ Wermers², Jinming Xue¹, Alex Zhou¹

¹Southern Methodist University; ²University of Maryland; ³University of Waterloo

Discussant: Vijay Yerramilli (University of Houston)

Huang-147-Bond Valuation Dispersion and ETF Arbitrage.pdf

Cross Trading in the Corporate Bond Market

Lina Han¹, Stacey Jacobsen², Jayoung Nam², Veronika Pool³

¹University of Massachusetts Amherst; ²Southern Methodist University; ³Vanderbilt University

Discussant: Anh Le (Pennsylvania State University)

Han-472-Cross Trading in the Corporate Bond Market.pdf

Beyond Performance: Mutual Funds, Non-Alpha Services, and the Value of Financial Advisors

Alessandro Previtero¹, Ran Xing²

¹Indiana University; ²Stockholm University

Discussant: Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)

Previtero-846-Beyond Performance.pdf