- Curated in Air Pollution
Stock market returns are lower on polluted days. "This estimate indicates that a one unit increase in PM2.5 decreases the daily percentage returns by 1.7%. Put differently, a one standard deviation increase in PM2.5 decreases the daily percentage returns by 11.9%, a substantial effect on daily NYSE returns." Hayes et al 2016.
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Oct, 2016
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