Sagar Saxena

Sagar Saxena
  • Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    319 Dinan Hall (formerly Vance Hall)
    3733 Spruce Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Overview

Sagar Saxena is an assistant professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests span the fields of empirical industrial organization and development economics. For more information about his research, please visit sagarsxn.com.
Sagar received a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 2023, and worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University before joining Wharton.
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Research

For more information, please visit sagarsxn.com.

Teaching

All Courses

  • BEPP6120 - Microeconomics for Mgrs Advanc

    This course will cover the economic foundations of business strategy and decision-making in market environments with other strategic actors and less than full information, as well as advanced pricing strategies. Topics include oligopoly models of market competition, creation, and protection, sophisticated pricing strategies for consumers with different valuations or consumers who buy multiple units (e.g. price discrimination, bundling, two-part tariffs), strategies for managing risk and making decisions under uncertainty, asymmetric information and its consequences for markets, and finally moral hazard and principle-agent theory with application to incentive contacts.

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