Chandler Lutz

Chandler Lutz

Associate Professor & Ott Distinguished Scholar in Real Estate
Finance

Chandler Lutz is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Steven Ott Distinguished Scholar in Real Estate in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. He also is a research fellow at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate. His research employs econometric, statistical, and machine learning methods in the study of housing markets, labor economics, and monetary policy.

Chandler’s research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Urban Economics, among other outlets. In recent work, he has developed new datasets that measure the amount of land unavailable for housing construction across the United States and causally assessed the impact of interest rate declines on distressed borrowers. While at the SEC, Chandler’s policy work spanned housing markets, financial risk, and macroeconomic analysis.