Sagar Saxena

Sagar Saxena is an Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research bridges empirical industrial organization (IO) and development economics, with a focus on topics like price controls, industrial policy, and agricultural interventions in India.

• PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University (2023)
• Postdoctoral scholar at Yale University

His work explores market dynamics under regulatory frameworks and asymmetric information, with applications to public policy and business strategy. Key projects include analyzing the distributional effects of agricultural policies and strategic pricing in oligopolistic markets.

At Wharton, Saxena teaches advanced microeconomics courses, emphasizing decision-making under uncertainty, pricing strategies, and principal-agent theory. His current working papers, co-authored with Shresth Garg, investigate price controls in Indian cement markets, tariff-subsidy interactions in oligopolies, and agricultural policy impacts.