Public Climate Attention and European Electricity Markets Systemic Risk: Evidence From Google Trends Data

Xingyu DAI; Chi Keung LAU; Qunwei WANG; Michal WOJEWODZKI

doi:10.1111/eufm.70026

Public Climate Attention and European Electricity Markets Systemic Risk: Evidence From Google Trends Data

Xingyu DAI
, Chi Keung LAU^*
, Qunwei WANG
, Michal WOJEWODZKI

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Finance

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Abstract

This study constructs public climate attention (PCA) indices from 1134 Google Trends keywords and investigates their impact on the European electricity markets (EUEMs) systemic risk. The results show that the climate conference and climate risk opportunity attention indices affect the overall EUEMs' returns comovement. The composite PCA index leads to quantile spillovers among EUEMs' returns. These findings remain robust even after filtering out various types of exogenous information and across different market-level classifications. The study also finds that different PCA indices help predict EUEMs' returns volatility and hedge the electricity prices risk with hedging tools.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	834-862
Number of pages	29
Journal	European Financial Management
Volume	32
Issue number	3
Early online date	16 Nov 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/eufm.70026
Publication status	Published - Jun 2026

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© 2025 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Funding

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Numbers 72503096 and 52270183) and the Jiangsu Funding Program for Excellent Postdoctoral Talent (Grant Number 2025ZB893).

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

comovement analysis
electricity market
Google Trends data
mixed-data sampling
public climate attention
spillover network

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