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Corporate Finance Conference

Events

The Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference will be held on May 15th & 16th, 2026 at the Carlson School of Management.

If you would like to attend the conference, please email the organizers at [email protected].

Guest Speakers

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Heitor Almeida

Professor of Finance and Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder Distinguished Chair in Corporate Finance and Academic Director of iDegrees

University of Illinois

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Juliane Begenau

Associate Professor of Finance and a Botha-Chan Faculty Scholar

Stanford University

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Paul Decaire

Assistant Professor of Finance

Arizona State University

A headshot of Brian Kim who has short dark hair and a subtle smile, wearing a navy blue button-down shirt against a light gray background.
Brian (Hwanki) Kim

Assistant Professor of Finance

Baylor University

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Giorgia Piacentino

Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics

University of Southern California

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Amir Sufi

Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Finance, and Public Policy

University of Chicago

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Emil Verner

Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Financial Economics

MIT

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Melanie Wallskog

Assistant Professor of Finance

Duke University

Friday, May 15th

12:30 - 1:30

Amir Sufi (Chicago) “The Lending Technology of Direct Lenders in Private Credit” (with Young Soo Jang, Dasol Kim, and Xiangyu Chen)

Discussant: Jacelly Cespedes (Minnesota)

1:30 - 2:30

Emil Verner (MIT) “Bank Runs With and Without Bank Failure” (with Sergio Correia and Stephan Luck)

Discussant: Richard Thakor (Minnesota)

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45 - 3:45

Murray Z Frank (Minnesota) “Passive Ownership and Corporate Investment: A Matching Perspective” (with Vidhan K. Goyal)

Discussant: Brian Kim (Baylor)

3:45 - 4:45

Heitor Almeida (Illinois) “Do Financing Frictions Amplify Shocks to Exports?” (with Daniel Carvalho and Yongseok Kim)

Discussant: Juliana Salomao (Minnesota)

4:45 - 5:00

Break

5:00 - 6:00

Juliane Begenau (Stanford) “Hold-to-maturity accounting, liquidity management, and financial stability tradeoffs” (with Saki Bigio and Matias Vieyra)

Discussant: Andrew Winton (Minnesota)

Saturday, May 16th

8:00 - 8:30

Juliana Salomao (Minnesota) “Granular Markups and Inflation Surge: The Role of Managerial Incentives” (with Yuchen Chen, Varun Sharma, and Yicheng Wang)

Discussant: Melanie Wallskog (Duke)

9:30 - 10:30

Giorgia Piacentino (Southern California) “Modular Contracts” (with Jason Roderick Donaldson and Zichen Zhao)

Discussant: David Yang (Minnesota)

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 11:45

Paul Decaire (Arizona State) “Valuation Models” (with Francesca Bastianello and Marius Guenzel)

Discussant: Adam Zhang (Minnesota)