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 October 2024)

SSRN

Institutional Website

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] Falsifiable Test Design Towards Unanimous Consent (with Yingkai Li) 

[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]


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)