Santosh Anagol is Associate Professor in Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School. His research focuses on financial market issues in emerging markets.
One recent project studies how the regulation of fees has shaped the Indian mutual fund industry. Another project studies the behavior of life insurance agents and how they respond to changes in regulatory policy.
His dissertation studied inefficiencies in the Indian market for dairy cows and buffaloes, which are commonly purchased by micro-finance borrowers. His teaching focuses on the effects of economic regulation on business.
He received his PhD from Yale University in 2009 and his undergraduate degree from Stanford in 2002, and was a Fulbright Scholar to India in 2002-2003.