期刊
EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS
卷 61, 期 6, 页码 3059-3085出版社
PHYSICA-VERLAG GMBH & CO
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-020-02006-y
关键词
Consumer spending; Intertemporal shifts; Retail sales; Unusual weather
资金
- Projekt DEAL
The study reveals that unusual weather significantly impacts consumer spending at the macro-level, with particularly high or low temperatures causing sizeable intertemporal shifts in spending. The effects of abnormal weather differ across seasons, mainly manifesting through the seasons change channel.
Although the influence of exceptional weather on individual behaviour has already been acknowledged in finance, psychology, and marketing, the literature examining weather effects at more aggregate level is still limited. Further, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that weather anomalies affect consumer spending and retail business. The main aim of this analysis is to investigate and quantify the effects of unusual weather in consumer spending at macro-level. Using aggregate retail sales data for Switzerland, our findings reveal that weather deviations from seasonal norms, especially, unusually high or low temperatures in a given month, do cause sizeable intertemporal shifts in consumer spending at country level. Furthermore, the effects of abnormal weather are found to differ across seasons, both with respect to sign and magnitude. In particular, our findings indicate that weather effects manifest mainly through the seasons change channel: weather conditions in line with the coming season boost the purchases early in the season.
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