When the market drives you crazy: Stock market returns and fatal car accidents
Corrado Giulietti,
Mirco Tonin and
Michael Vlassopoulos
No BEMPS52, BEMPS - Bozen Economics & Management Paper Series from Faculty of Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen
Abstract:
The stock market in uences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides evidence that daily uctuations in the stock market have important-and hitherto neglected-spillover effects in another, unrelated domain, namely driving. Using the universe of fatal road car accidents in the United States from 1990 to 2015, we find that a one standard deviation reduction in daily stock market returns is associated with a 0.5% increase in the number of fatal accidents. A battery of falsification tests support a causal interpretation of this finding. Our results are consistent with immediate emotions stirred by a negative stock market performance in uencing the number of fatal accidents, in particular among inexperienced investors, thus highlighting the broader economic and social consequences of stock market uctuations.
Keywords: Stock market; Car accidents; Emotions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 G41 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: [26 pages]
Date: 2018-07
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Journal Article: When the market drives you crazy: Stock market returns and fatal car accidents (2020)
Working Paper: When the Market Drives you Crazy: Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents (2018)
Working Paper: When the market drives you crazy: Stock market returns and fatal car accidents (2018)
Working Paper: When the Market Drives You Crazy: Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents (2018)
Working Paper: When the market drives you crazy: Stock market returns and fatal car accidents (2018)
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