Anthony Randazzo
Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation
Anthony Randazzo is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
His research portfolio is regularly evolving, and he maintains a wide interest in economic policy at both a domestic and international level.
Randazzo is also managing director of the Pension Integrity Project, which provides technical assistance to public sector retirement system stakeholders who are seeking to prevent pension plan insolvency. His research focus on the national public sector pension crisis has a dual focus of identifying the systemic factors that cause public officials to underfund pension obligations as well as studying the processes by which meaningful pension reform can be accomplished. Within the Project he leads the analytics team that develops independent, third party actuarial analysis to stakeholders considering changes to public sector retirement systems.
In addition, Randazzo writes about the moral foundations of economic theory, and is currently developing research on the ways that the moral intuitions of economists influence their substantive findings on topics like income inequality, immigration, or labor policy.
Randazzo's work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Barron's, Bloomberg View, The Washington Times, The Detroit News, Chicago Sun-Times, Orange-County Register, RealClearMarkets, Reason magazine and various other online and print publications.
During his tenure at Reason he has published substantive research on housing finance, financial services regulation, and various other aspects of economic policy at the federal level. And he has written regularly on labor economics, tax policy, privatization, and Turkish-U.S. political and economic issues.
Randazzo has also testified before numerous state and local legislative bodies on pension policy matters, as well as before the House Financial Services Committee on topics related to housing policy and government-sponsored enterprises.
He holds a multidisciplinary M.A. in behavioral political economy from New York University.
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Arizona’s Public Safety Pension Reform Will Help Improve the Plan’s Solvency
Changes make benefits more affordable, reduce the volatility in employer costs, and end unfunded post-retirement benefit increases
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Arizona Enacts Groundbreaking Public Safety Pension Reform
Collaborative process yielded consensus on wide-ranging reforms
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Signs Comprehensive Pension Reform Legislation
Arguably more notable than the reform itself is the process used to achieve stakeholder consensus on the reform package.
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Best Practices for Setting Public Sector Pension Fund Discount Rates
The main objective should be for pension plans to shift toward having discount rates reflect the risks of liabilities—not the potential performance of assets.
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Testimony on Assembly Bill 190 (Kirner) in Nevada Assembly Committee on Ways and Means
Actuarial analysis of the fiscal effects, risk profile adjustment, and benefit changes of AB190 pension reform
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The “Transition Costs” Myth
Why Defined-Benefit to Defined-Contribution Pension Reform Is Commonly Misunderstood
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Poor Financial Estimates Plague Orange County, CA Retirement System
The county needs to enact reforms or risk bankruptcy
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The Truth About Pension Reform in Phoenix
Donâ??t be fooled by the disinformation disseminated by critics
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