Marco Sammon

Marco Sammon is an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches FIN2 in the required curriculum.

His research is focused on asset pricing. Currently, he is working on several projects regarding the factors that affect the incorporation of information into stock prices, including the rise of passive ownership and financial journalism.

Professor Sammon holds a PhD in Finance from the Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University. Prior to Kellogg, he worked in Supervision, Regulation and Credit at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

WORKING PAPERS

• Sammon, Marco. "Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness." (pdf) Working Paper, August 2021. View Details
• Baker, Scott, Brian Baugh, and Marco Sammon. "Intangible Capital and Customer Churn." (pdf) Working Paper, August 2021. View Details
• Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom, Steve Davis, and Marco Sammon. "What Triggers National Stock Market Jumps?" (pdf) Working Paper, November 2020. View Details
• Sammon, Marco, Cheng (Patrick) Luo, Enrichetta Ravina, and Luis M. Viceira. "Retail Investors' Contrarian Behavior Around News and the Momentum Effect." (pdf) Working Paper, November 2020. View Details

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Bianconi, Marcelo, Federico Esposito, and Marco Sammon. "Trade Policy Uncertainty and Stock Returns." (pdf) Art. 102492. Journal of International Money and Finance 119 (December 2021). View Details
• Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Kyle Kost, Marco Sammon, and Tasaneeya Viratyosin. "The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19." (pdf) Review of Asset Pricing Studies 10, no. 4 (December 2020): 742–758. View Details
• Jagannathan, Ravi, Ashwin Ravikumar, and Marco Sammon. "Environmental, Social, and Governance Criteria: Why Investors Should Care." Journal of Investment Management 16, no. 1 (2018): 18–31. View Details