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

Social Finance

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Yessenia Tellez, Virginia Tech

Location: Bering

Presentations

Social Interaction Intensity and Investor Behavior

David Hirshleifer¹, Yaron Levi¹, Michael Gelman², Liron Reiter-Gavish³

¹University of Southern California; ²University of Delaware; ³Netanya Academic College

Discussant: Seyed Mohammad Kazempour (Louisiana State University)

Hirshleifer-293-Social Interaction Intensity and Investor Behavior.pdf

Mimicking Finance

Lauren Cohen¹, Yiwen Lu², Quoc Nguyen³

¹Harvard University; ²University of Pennsylvania; ³DePaul University

Discussant: Tyler Beason (Virginia Tech)

Cohen-354-Mimicking Finance.pdf

Student Debt and the Cinderella Effect

Jess Cornaggia¹, Kimberly Cornaggia¹, Qiang Wang², Han Xia³

¹Pennsylvania State University; ²University of Calgary; ³University of Texas at Dallas

Discussant: Billy Xu (University of Rochester)

Cornaggia-694-Student Debt and the Cinderella Effect.pdf