Boli Xu

Welcome! I am an assistant professor of economics at the University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business.

My research interests are microeconomic theory (primary) and industrial organization.

I received my Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in June 2023.

C.V. (updated June 2025)

Publications

[1] Reserve Price Signaling with Public Information: Evidence from Online Auto Auctions (with Junyan Guan)
[full version, SSRN] [slides]

Working Papers

[1] Strategic Exits in Stochastic Partnerships: The Curse of Profitability

[2] Robust Contracting for Sequential Search (with Theo Durandard and Udayan Vaidya)

[3] Information Acquisition Towards Unanimous Consent (with Yingkai Li)

[4] Partnership Stability and the Benefit of Imperfect Monitoring

[5] Optimal Disclosure in Two-Sided Matching

Selected Work in Progress

[1] A Revision-Game Concept of Stability and Cooperation in Games (with Bruno Strulovici)

[2] Dynamic Delegated Search (with Allen Vong)

[3] Robust Contracting: A Best-Response Approach (with Theo Durandard and Udayan Vaidya)

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