{"id":38312,"date":"2026-03-25T09:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=38312"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:12:07","slug":"tianxiao-michael-xu","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/profile\/tianxiao-michael-xu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tianxiao Michael Xu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tianxiao (Michael) Xu<\/strong> is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Boston University. His main research interests include microeconomic theory, with a focus on social networks and game theory, as well as industrial organization (IO) theory, and applied econometrics. He has also conducted empirical social networks research with methods ranging from multi-network-layer surveys to clustering and simulation (R, Python) algorithms. He expects to receive an MA in Political Economy from Boston University in May 2026, and holds a BA in Economics from New York University Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/econ\/files\/2026\/03\/Michael-Xu-BU-Econ-PhD-Resume-0326.pdf\">CV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields:<\/strong>\u00a0Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Econometrics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14270,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/38312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/38312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38322,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/38312\/revisions\/38322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}