Does Weather Still Affect The Stock Market?

Nils Muhlack (), Christian Soost () and Christian Johannes Henrich ()
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Christian Soost: FOM University of Applied Sciences
Christian Johannes Henrich: FOM University of Applied Sciences

Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 74, issue 1, 1-35

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the impact of weather phenomena on the German stock market, evaluating cloud cover, humidity, air pressure, precipitation, temperature, and wind speed as weather variables. We use stock market data (returns, trading volume, and volatility) from the DAX, MDAX, SDAX, and TecDAX for the period from 2003 to 2017 and show, with modern time-series (GARCH) models that air pressure is the only weather variable that exerts a potentially consistent effect on the stock market. Air pressure reduces the trading volume on the SDAX and TecDAX, and changes in air pressure lead to increases in returns on the DAX, MDAX and SDAX. The effects of the other weather variables show no clear pattern and are critically discussed. In addition, this article contains an overview of the historical research results on the effects of weather on stock markets.

Keywords: Weather effects; Air pressure; GARCH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s41471-021-00125-5

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