The March 9, 2011 seminar was led by Andy Eggers, post-doctoral fellow in the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale University. Andy presented on financial disclosure by members of Congress, and much of the seminar discussion focused on his paper, which demonstrated the surprisingly mediocre performance of Congressional stock portfolios.

Andy opened by describing some of the historical context for his research. Previous studies had been done that seemed to show that Senators continually made...