About

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale. My research fields are industrial organization and urban economics.

I study topics including congestion pricing, affordable housing, and auction design. I’m particularly interested in the distributional effects of urban policies and their implications for the design of transportation and housing markets.

I completed my PhD in economics at Stanford in June 2024. Before Yale, I worked as a researcher and antitrust economist at the Federal Trade Commission.

Contact: pearlzli16 [at] gmail [dot] com