Nick Tuszynski

Nick Tuszynski was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. After high-school, he received a basketball scholarship at Loyola University of New Orleans. At Loyola, Nick graduated magna cum laude and was the recipient of the Dean’s Honor Award in the Joseph A. Butt School of Business. During his tenure at Loyola, he took classes with Dr. Walter Block and Dr. Dan D’Amico which led to his interest in free-market ideas. In the summer of 2009, Nick interned as a Koch Summer Fellow which inspired him to become more involved in economics and public policy. Nick also interned at the Department of Transportation in the Office of the Secretary as a policy analyst. Nick’s areas of interest are economics and public policy, infrastructure development, and public-private partnerships. He was accepted into the Presidential Management Fellows Program and is currently a Financial Analyst in the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Published Research

Institutions and State Spending: An Overview

Matthew Mitchell, Nick Tuszynski | Jun 01, 2012

Matt Mitchell and Nick Tuszynski discuss two institutions that have been successful at controlling spending: separate taxing and spending committees, and item-reduction vetoes.

The Economics and Regulation of Bank Overdraft Protection

Todd Zywicki, Nick Tuszynski | May 09, 2012

Regulators cannot wish away consumers’ need for credit, and eliminating access to overdraft protection will not correspondingly eliminate this need.

Working Papers

Why the United States Needs to Restructure the Corporate Income Tax

Jason J. Fichtner, Nick Tuszynski | Nov 02, 2011

Firms respond to high tax rates and relocate economic activity to lower-tax countries. Thus, the current U.S. corporate tax structure places U.S.-headquartered corporations at a tremendous disadvantage in the global marketplace because other countries have lowered their corporate income tax rates to welcome multinational corporations. This paper discusses the economic implications of corporate taxes.

Institutions and State Spending

Matthew Mitchell, Nick Tuszynski | Oct 03, 2011

This paper summarizes the empirical investigations of sixteen state-level institutions. The lesson for both state and federal policy makers is that there are a number of institutional reforms that seem likely to put spending on a more sustainable path.

Charts

How Institutions Affect Government Spending

Matthew Mitchell, Nick Tuszynski | Oct 10, 2011

This week’s chart by shows that many institutions are associated with lower per-capita spending.

Media Clippings

Obama Proposal a Little Good, Some Bad, a Whole Lot of Ugly Nick Tuszynski \| Feb 24, 2012 Outlet: U.S. News and World Report	Reform our corporate tax code Nick Tuszynski \| Dec 29, 2011 Outlet: The Washington Times