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SSRN-Music and the Market: Song and Stock Volatility by Philip Maymin by Decius at 6:37 pm EST, Dec 3, 2008
I compare the annual average beat variance of the songs in the US Billboard Top 100 since its inception in 1958 through 2007 to the standard deviation of returns of the S&P 500 for the same year and find that they are significantly negatively correlated. With the recent high stock volatility, people should now prefer less volatile music
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