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It’s Got a Beat and You Can Trade To It
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed — This is one of the stranger financial research papers I have seen in some time: Music and the Market: Song and Stock Volatility Philip Maymin Polytechnic Institute of New York University November 4, 2008 Abstract: 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 stock market has a beat!
MAKE Magazine — SSRN-Music and the Market: Song and Stock Volatility by Philip Maymin... via Waxy & Kedrosky.... Philip writes- 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. Furthermore, the beat variance appears able to predict future market volatility, ...

Back-beat as a stockmarket tool
p2pnet news — ... Or to put it another way, “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,” says Maymin in the abstract to his paper, Music and the Market: Song and Stock Volatility. ...