Justin Katz

Justin Katz is a PhD candidate in Business Economics and was a 2024 Meyer Fellow at the Center. His research identifies institutional and behavioral frictions in consumer debt management, and studies impacts on market equilibrium, fiscal and monetary policy, and lender competition, with a focus on mortgage and housing markets. Justin is an NBER graduate fellow in consumer financial management, a graduate research fellow at the Boston Fed, and a member of the Harvard Kennedy School's Reimagining the Economy project. He has previously worked at the NBER, Microsoft Research, and McKinsey. He holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University.