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| author | Roodman, Benjamin Pham Sy, Eugene Vázquez, J. Xavier Atero Huang, Yu-Shiang Lin, Che Wang, Chaun-Ju |
| author_facet | Roodman, Benjamin Pham Sy, Eugene Vázquez, J. Xavier Atero Huang, Yu-Shiang Lin, Che Wang, Chaun-Ju |
| contents | Congressional stock trading has raised concerns about potential information asymmetries and conflicts of interest in financial markets. We introduce a temporal graph network (TGN) framework to identify information channels through which members of Congress may possess advantageous knowledge when trading company stocks. We construct a multimodal dynamic graph integrating diverse publicly available datasets, including congressional stock transactions, lobbying relationships, campaign finance contributions, and geographical connections between legislators and corporations. Our approach formulates the detection problem as a dynamic edge classification task, where we identify trades that exhibit statistically significant outperformance relative to the S&P 500 across long time horizons. To handle the temporal nature of these relationships, we develop a two-step walk-forward validation architecture that respects information availability constraints and prevents look-ahead bias. We evaluate several labeling strategies based on risk-adjusted returns and demonstrate that the TGN successfully captures complex temporal dependencies between congressional-corporate interactions and subsequent trading performance. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Detecting Information Channels in Congressional Trading via Temporal Graph Learning Roodman, Benjamin Pham Sy, Eugene Vázquez, J. Xavier Atero Huang, Yu-Shiang Lin, Che Wang, Chaun-Ju Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Congressional stock trading has raised concerns about potential information asymmetries and conflicts of interest in financial markets. We introduce a temporal graph network (TGN) framework to identify information channels through which members of Congress may possess advantageous knowledge when trading company stocks. We construct a multimodal dynamic graph integrating diverse publicly available datasets, including congressional stock transactions, lobbying relationships, campaign finance contributions, and geographical connections between legislators and corporations. Our approach formulates the detection problem as a dynamic edge classification task, where we identify trades that exhibit statistically significant outperformance relative to the S&P 500 across long time horizons. To handle the temporal nature of these relationships, we develop a two-step walk-forward validation architecture that respects information availability constraints and prevents look-ahead bias. We evaluate several labeling strategies based on risk-adjusted returns and demonstrate that the TGN successfully captures complex temporal dependencies between congressional-corporate interactions and subsequent trading performance. |
| title | Detecting Information Channels in Congressional Trading via Temporal Graph Learning |
| topic | Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05514 |