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 July 2024)
Working Papers
[1] Strategic Exits in Stochastic Partnerships: The Curse of Profitability
Conferences: PET 2023, ES meetings (North America Summer 2022, Europe Summer 2021, Asia 2021, China 2021), AEA 2022 (poster)
[2] Falsifiable Test Design in Coordination Games (with Yingkai Li)
[3] Partnership Stability and the Benefit of Imperfect Monitoring
Conferences: SAET 2023, SEA 2023, Midwest Theory Conference 2023
[4] Optimal Disclosure in Two-Sided Matching
Publications
[1] Reserve Price Signaling with Public Information: Evidence from Online Auto Auctions (with Junyan Guan)
[full version, SSRN] [slides]
The RAND Journal of Economics, accepted
Conferences: IIOC 2022, ES meeting (Europe Winter 2021), YES 2021
Work in Progress
[1] A Revision-Game Concept of Stability and Cooperation in Games (with Bruno Strulovici)
Conferences: SAET 2024, BEET 2023
[2] Dynamic Delegated Search (with Allen Vong)
[3] Robust Contracting for Search (with Theo Durandard and Udayan Vaidya)
[4] Strategic Information Acquisition with Payoff Externalities
[5] Farsighted Network Formation with Upfront Costs