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, industrial organization, and organizational economics.
I received my Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in June 2023.
Email: boli-xu@uiowa.edu
C.V. (updated March 2024)
Working Papers
[1] Strategic Exits in Stochastic Partnerships: The Curse of Profitability (updated 04/2024) [draft] [SSRN]
Conferences: PET 2023, ES meetings (North America Summer 2022, Europe Summer 2021, Asia 2021, China 2021), AEA 2022 (poster)
[2] Partnership Stability and the Benefit of Imperfect Monitoring (updated 07/2023) [draft] [SSRN]
Conferences: SAET 2023, SEA 2023, Midwest Theory Conference 2023
[3] Reserve Price Signaling with Public Information: Evidence from Online Auto Auctions (with Junyan Guan, updated 02/2024) [draft] [SSRN]
Revise and Resubmit (2nd round) at the RAND Journal of Economics
Conferences: IIOC 2022, ES meeting (Europe Winter 2021), YES 2021
[4] Optimal Disclosure in Two-Sided Matching [draft] [SSRN]
Conferences: ES meetings (Asia 2022, Australasia 2022)
Work in Progress
[5] A Revision-Game Concept of Stability and Cooperation in Games (with Bruno Strulovici)
Conferences: SAET 2024, BEET 2023
[6] Falsifiable Test Design in Coordination (with Yingkai Li)
Conferences: ICGT 2023, INFORMS 2022
[7] Dynamic Delegated Search
[8] Robust Contracting for Search (with Theo Durandard and Udayan Vaidya)
[9] Strategic Information Acquisition with Payoff Externalities
[10] Farsighted Network Formation with Upfront Costs