Colin O'Reilly, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

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Heider College of Business
Economics & Finance - Business
Menard Center for Economic Inquiry

Colin O'Reilly, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Colin O’Reilly is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University and is also a scholar in the Institute for Economic Inquiry. In 2014 Colin received his Ph.D. in economics from Suffolk University where he studied economic development and violent conflict. His research on institutions and economic development has been published in World Development and Economica. Colin has also published cross-country studies on economic growth and inequality in Empirical Economics and Public Choice

Department

Economics and Finance

Position

Associate Professor

Publications

  • Regulation & governance
    Chambers Dustin, etal A Practical Measure of Red Tape 2025
  • Economics letters
    O’Reilly Colin, etal The legal protection of women’s property rights, factors of production, and economic growth
    255, p. 112504 2025
  • Journal of Comparative Economics
    O'Reilly Colin, etal Freedom from unit roots? The time series properties of democracy and economic freedom 2025
  • Contemporary economic policy
    O’Reilly Colin, etal Women's property rights equality and entrepreneurial activity 2024
  • Applied economics
    O'Reilly Colin, etal The dynamics of non-intervention: applying the dynamic common correlated effects estimator to state-level economic freedom, p. 1 - 15 2024
  • The independent review (Oakland, Calif.)
    O'Reilly Colin, Governance in the Aftermath of Violent Internal Conflict
    29:3, p. 389 - 401 2024
  • European journal of law and economics
    Murphy Ryan H., etal Freedom through taxation: the effect of fiscal capacity on the rule of law 2023
  • The Journal of development studies
    Murphy Ryan, etal The Expansive Corridor: Testing Acemoglu and Robinson (2019)
    ahead-of-print:ahead-of-print, p. 1 - 16 2023
  • Journal of entrepreneurship and public policy
    O'Reilly Colin, Barriers to entry, entrepreneurship and income inequality within the USA
    11:4, p. 332 - 356 2022
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
    Chambers Dustin, etal Regulation and Income Inequality in the United States 2022
  • Economica
    O'Reilly Colin, etal An Index Measuring State Capacity 2022
  • JOURNAL OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC CHOICE
    Haveman Scott, etal Tax policy and charitable giving: an evaluation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2017 and its impact on charitable contributions
    36:2, p. 189 - 207 2021
  • European Journal of Political Economy
    Chambers Dustin, etal Regulation and income inequality in the United States, p. 102101 - 102101 2021
  • Public Choice
    Chambers Dustin, etal The Economic Theory of Regulation and Inequality 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Iowa 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in North Dakota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Wisconsin 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in South Dakota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Illinois 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Kansas 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Wisconsin 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Wyoming 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Wyoming 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Michigan 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Kansas 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Minnesota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Illinois 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Iowa 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Indiana 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Minnesota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in South Dakota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in North Dakota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Indiana 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Michigan 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Louisiana 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, etal The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Louisiana 2021
  • Economics of Transition and Institutional Change
    O'Reilly Colin, Violent Conflict and Institutional Change, p. 257 - 317 2020
  • Quarterly journal of business and economics
    Manish G, etal Financial Regulation and Income Inequality
    58:3, p. 33 - 52 2020
  • Applied Economics Letters
    Murphy Ryan H., etal The champions of capitalism? National leaders and the institutional channel
    27:8, p. 647 - 650 2020
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
    Murphy Ryan, etal Assessing State Capacity Libertarianism, p. 735 - 767 2020
  • O'Reilly Colin, Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession 2019
  • Empirical economics
    Murphy Ryan H, etal Applying panel vector autoregression to institutions, human capital, and output
    57:5, p. 1633 - 1652 2019
  • Public Choice
    Manish G. P., etal Banking regulation regulatory capture and inequality
    180:1-2, p. 145 - 164 2019
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
    O'Reilly Colin, etal Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom 2019
  • The journal of regional analysis & policy
    Chambers Dustin, etal Entry Regulations and Income Inequality at the Regional Level
    49:1, p. 31 - 39 2019
  • Econ journal watch
    Murphy Ryan H, etal 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
    O’Reilly Colin, etal Post-Genocide Justice: The Gacaca Courts
    36:5, p. 561 - 576 2018
  • Comparative economic studies
    O'Reilly Colin, etal Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom
    59:3, p. 243 - 260 2017
  • Contemporary economic policy
    O'Reilly Colin, etal DO INSTITUTIONS MITIGATE THE RISK OF NATURAL RESOURCE CONFLICTS?
    35:3, p. 532 - 541 2017
  • Applied Economics Letters
    Biswas Arnab, etal Civil War and Economic Growth: The Case for a Closer Look at Forms of Monilization
    23:15, p. 1057 - 1061 2016
  • EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
    O'Reilly Colin, War and the growth of government
    40:Part A, p. 31 - 41 2015
  • World Development
    O’Reilly Colin, Household Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda
    76, p. 203 - 215 2015
  • The economics of transition
    O'Reilly Colin, Firm Investment decisions in the post-conflict context
    23:4, p. 717 - 751 2015
  • Comparative economic studies
    O'Reilly Colin, Investment and institutions in post-civil war recovery
    56:1, p. 1 - 24 2014