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title: The Illusion of Informed Congressional Trading: Evidence from Committee Networks and Hearings
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7679885/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-11-06
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 7679885
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7679885
featured: 2026-11-06
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# The Illusion of Informed Congressional Trading: Evidence from Committee Networks and Hearings

Using machine learning to map firm disclosures to congressional committee jurisdictions, finds no evidence that members earn abnormal returns from legislative access or committee hearings.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7679885
- Identifier: SSRN 7679885
- Released: 2026-11-05
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 138 (2026-11-06): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2026-11-06/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
- Authors: Yuan Zhou

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