Kyle McKenzie

Kyle McKenzie

Kyle McKenzie is a research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is also the managing editor of the Mercatus Policy Series. He works with  the Regulatory Studies Program, the Government Accountability Project, and the Social Change Project. His issue areas include energy market regulation, homeland security policy, and creative ways to eliminate valueless government activity.

After working at the Mercatus Center as a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow, Mr. McKenzie migrated to the Mid-Atlantic and accepted his current position.

Mr. McKenzie graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin with degrees in economics and psychology. He resides in the District of Columbia. His other interests include Austrian economics, community/urban development, and expanding his record collection.

PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Mercatus Policy Series
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Lessons from Business Improvement Districts: Building on Past Successes

This Policy Primer provides basic background information on the history, legal framework, and past successes of BIDs, information that local governments interested in promoting BIDs within their jurisdictions might find useful. It further proposes alternative ways urban governments could give BIDs enhanced roles in local governance.

Mercatus Policy Series
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From BIDs to RIDs: Creating Residential Improvement Districts

This Policy Comment provides examples of failed development attempts of the past and describes how Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have overcome similar problems and succeeded.

Mercatus Policy Series
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Montenegro: The Challenges of A Newborn State

This Country Brief discusses the future of Montenegro and its economic reforms.

TESTIMONY & COMMENTS

Public Interest Comment
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Strengthening Economic Freedom: Natural Resource Indicators and Economic Growth

In this policy comment submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the Mercatus Center reflects on the first three years of the MCC and evaluates the potential of two proposed "natural resource indicators" as criteria for awarding aid grants to developing countries. The MCC was created in 2003 by policy makers who saw potential to go beyond the failed programs that had characterized sixty years of American international assistance.

MEDIA CLIPPINGS

TCS Daily

A Mediterranean Tiger

Frederic Sautet, Kyle McKenzie | Mar 12, 2007
Policy makers working out the enigma of successful transitioning to a market economy have a possible model for success quietly rising in the Balkans. Montenegro-a part of the former Yugoslavia-separated from Serbia in May and it appears that the tiny nation's trajectory is solid. Montenegro's peaceful revolution started well before the May referendum. The country began…