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What explains trading behaviors of members of congress? : evidence from over 100,000 congressional stock trades

Karadas, Serkan; Schlosky, Minh Tam - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 96 (2024) 2, pp. 1-16

politicians made informed trades until at least the passage of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. In … transactions following the passage of the STOCK Act. Furthermore, we show that politicians make more buy trades when economic …

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Did politicians use non-public macroeconomic information in their stock trades? Evidence from the STOCK Act of 2012

Karadas, Serkan; Schlosky, Minh Tam; Hall, Joshua C. - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-18

Existing research shows that members of Congress made informed trades prior to the passage of the STOCK Act of 2012 …. There is also evidence in the literature to suggest that the STOCK Act was able to deter politicians from trading based on … passage of the STOCK Act remains unexamined. We analyze 101,191 individual stock transactions covering the 2004-2014 period …

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Did politicians use non-public macroeconomic information in their stock trades? : evidence from the STOCK Act of 2012

Karadas, Serkan; Schlosky, Minh Tam; Hall, Joshua C. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-18

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Relief rally : senators as feckless as the rest of us at stock picking

Belmont, William; Sacerdote, Bruce; Van Hoek, Ian - 2020

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Abnormal returns from joining Congress? : evidence from new members

Hall, Joshua C.; Karadas, Serkan; Schlosky, Minh Tam - 2016

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