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.
Email: boli-xu@uiowa.edu
C.V. (updated March 2025)
Working Papers
[1] Strategic Exits in Stochastic Partnerships: The Curse of Profitability
Theoretical Economics, revise and resubmit
Conferences: PET 2023, ES meetings (North America Summer 2022, Europe Summer 2021, Asia 2021, China 2021), AEA 2022 (poster)
[2] Robust Contracting for Sequential Search (with Theo Durandard and Udayan Vaidya)
Current version: 02/2025 [draft] (new version coming soon)
Conferences: SAET 2025, SEA 2024, ICGT 2024
[3] Information Acquisition Towards Unanimous Consent (with Yingkai Li)
Conferences: SAET 2025, SEA 2024, GAMES 2024, ICGT 2023, INFORMS 2022
[4] Partnership Stability and the Benefit of Imperfect Monitoring
[5] 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
Selected 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)