Using an event study approach at the stock level, we examine the effect of North Atlantic hurricanes on U.S. stock returns over the period January 1990 to December 2014. We document a substantial economic impact of hurricanes on the aggregate market: an accumulated loss of 0.522% (6.264%...

Hurricanes represent exogenous shocks with consequences for the real economy similar to those commonly-considered as consumption disasters. We investigate how the abnormal effects due to landfall hurricanes on stock returns, illiquidity and tail risk vary across decile portfolios of stocks...

We document strong abnormal effects due to U.S. landfall hurricanes over the period 1990 to 2017 on stock returns and illiquidity across portfolios of stocks sorted by market equity (ME), book-to-market equity ratio (BE/ME), momentum, return-on-equity (ROE), and investment-to-assets (I/A). ROE-...

Hurricanes give rise to flight-to-safety episodes during which High Tech stocks consistently behave differently from stocks in other industries. We isolate a safety premium of 3.75\% which peaks at 16% annualized for periods of 20 days after landfall. The safety premium is greater than the short...