Colin O'Reilly, PhD
Associate Professor

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Heider College of Business
Economics & Finance - Business
Institute for Economic Inquiry
HARP - Harper Center for Student Life & Learn
Colin O'Reilly, PhD
Associate Professor
Teaching Interests
- Institutions and Economic Development
Department
Economics and Finance
Position
Associate Professor
Books
- Niederjohn M.S., O’Reilly C. (2019) Integrating the Economic Way of Thinking into US History Courses. In: Hall J., Lawson K. (eds) Teaching Economics. Springer.
Articles
- Economica
O'Reilly, Colin, An Index Measuring State Capacity, 1789–2018 2022 - European Journal of Political Economy
Chambers, Dustin, Regulation and income inequality in the United States 2021 - Public Choice
Chambers, Dustin and O'Reilly, Colin, The Economic Theory of Regulation and Inequality 2021 - Journal of Public Choice and Public Finance
Haveman, Scott and O'Reilly, Colin, Tax Policy and Charitable Giving: An Evaluation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and Its Impact on Charitable Contributions 2021 - Economics of Transition and Institutional Change
O'Reilly, Colin, Violent Conflict and Institutional Change
29(2), p. 257-317 2021 - Quarterly Journal of Finance & Accounting
Manish, G.P. and O'Reilly, Colin, Financial Regulation and Income Inequality
53(3), p. 33-52 2020 - Cato Journal
Murphy, Ryan and O'Reilly, Colin, Assessing State Capacity Libertarianism
40(3), p. 735-767 2020 - Applied Economics Letters
The champions of capitalism? National leaders and the institutional channel
27(8) , p. 647-650 2020 - Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy
Entry Regulations and Income Inequality at the Regional Level
49(1), p. 31-39 2019 - Empirical Economics
Applying Panel Vector Autoregression to Institutions, Human Capital, and Output
57, p. 1633-1652 2019 - Public Choice
Banking regulation regulatory capture and inequality
180(1), p. 145-164 2019 - Econ Journal Watch
And the IMF Said, Let There Be Data, and There Was Data: Private Capital Stocks in the Eastern Bloc
15(3) , p. 290-300 2018 - Development Policy Review
Post-Genocide Justice: The Gacaca Courts
36(5) , p. 561-576 2018 - Comparative Economic Studies
Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom
59(3), p. 243-260 2017 - Contemporary Economic Policy
Do Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Conflicts?
35(3), p. 532-541 2017 - Applied Economics Letters
Civil War and Economic Growth: The Case for a Closer Look at Forms of Monilization
23 Issue 15, p. 1057-1061 2016 - European Journal of Political Economy
War and Growth of Government
40, p. 31-41 2015 - World Development
Household Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda
76, p. 203-215 2015 - Economics of Transition
Firm Investment Decisions in Post-Conflict Context
23-4, p. 717-751 2015 - Comparative Economic Studies
Institutions and Investment in Post Civil War Recovery
56-1, p. 1-24 2014
Presentations
- Barriers to Entry, Entrepreneurship and Inequality within the United States Association for Private Enterprise Education Conference 2022 2022
- Women's Property Rights, Factors of Production and Economic Growth Southern Economics Association Conference 2021 2021
- Women's Property Rights and Economic Growth Western Economics Association Virtual Conference 2021 2021
- "Developing the Bottom Billion from the Bottom Up" Invited Public Talk at Emerson College in Boston, MA 2020
- "Violent Conflict and Institutional Change" Southern Economics Association Conference. Tampa, FL 2019
- "A Strong US Economy with Risks Around Every Corner" Public Talk to Accounting & Financial Women's Alliance - Omaha, NE (November 2019) 2019
- "On Track or About to Derail: A Strong Economy with Risks Around Every Corner" Keynote Address at Union Pacific Executive Forum. (Omaha, NE) 2019
- "Financial Regulation and Income Inequality" Mini-conference for the Quarterly Journal of Accounting and Finance - Institute for Economic Inquiry, Creighton University (July 2019) 2019
- "Developing the Bottom Billion from the Bottom Up" (Young Scholar) Mont Pelerin Society - Texas (May 2019) 2019
- "Assessing Economic Understanding in US History" Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference (April 2019) 2019
- "Violent Conflict and Institutional Change" Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference (April 2019) 2019
- "Oil Rents and State Economic Policy" Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference (April 2019) 2019
- Southern Economics Association (November 2018) Presented: Can War Foster Institutional Change? 2018
- Christopher Newport University (April 2018)Presented: Top Down or Bottom Up? Which Institutions Matter for Economic Development? 2018
- Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference (April 2018)Presented: Civil War and Institutional ChangePresented: Assessing the Economic Way of Thinking 2018
- Eastern Economic Association Conference (March 2018)Presented: Civil War and Institutional Change 2018
- Southern Economic Association (November 2017)Presented: Oil Rents and State Economic Policy 2017
- Emerson College (October 2017) Presented: F.A. Hayek's Modern Legacy 2017