“…The behavioral paradigm, on the other hand, draws on the psychological literature dating back to the 1970s, which demonstrates that the weather affects human behavior 4. More importantly, for our purposes, investor sentiment―and thus financial markets―can be influenced by weather‐related factors such as sunshine and cloud coverage (Bassi et al., 2013; Hirshleifer & Shumway, 2003; Saunders, 1993), wind speed (Keef & Roush, 2002), humidity (Sariannidis et al., 2016), precipitation (Kaustia & Rantapuska, 2016) and air temperature (Bansal & Ochoa, 2011; Cao & Wei, 2005a; Floros, 2011; Keef & Roush, 2007; Peillex et al., 2021; Yan et al., 2022).…”