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wildfire acreage utility short

cadence: Dailydata: mediumshort only
paper
2024
Source
Pankratz, N., Schiller, C. (2024). "Climate Change and Adaptation in Global Supply-Chain Networks." Review of Financial Studies. Also Mukanjari-Sterner 2020 Environmental and Resource Economics.
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What it checks

Big CA wildfire → PG&E and other CA utilities drop for 1-3 weeks.

Mechanism

CA wildfires >50k acres drive negative drift in CA IOUs (PCG/EIX/SRE) via PSPS + inverse-condemnation liability.

No production champion data for this family yet. Stats appear once the discovery pipeline promotes at least one strategy with this family tag.

Signal rule

CA fire acres>=50k AND not contained → short cohort ticker; hold 1/3/15d

Data dependencies

  • daily_prices

    Adjusted-close OHLCV for every US-listed ticker; primary price feed.

  • nifc_fires

    Worker data table — see services/worker schema.

Expected edge

Paper alpha
-2% to -6%
Paper window
T+0 to T+15d

-2% to -6% over 15d.

Example tickers where this is likely to fire

Illustrative only — the signal fires based on the live data, not a fixed list.

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