Colin O'Reilly, PhD

Director, Menard Family Center for Economic Inquiry

Associate Professor

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Contact

ColinOReilly@creighton.edu
Heider College of Business
Economics & Finance - Business
Menard Center for Economic Inquiry

Colin O'Reilly, PhD

Director, Menard Family Center for Economic Inquiry

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. 

Teaching Interests

  • Institutions and Economic Development

Department

Economics and Finance

Position

Associate Professor

Publications

  • Public Choice
    Chambers Dustin, O’Reilly Colin, The Economic Theory of Regulation and Inequality 2021
  • Applied Economics Letters
    Murphy Ryan H., O’Reilly Colin W., The champions of capitalism? National leaders and the institutional channel
    27:8, p. 647 - 650 2020
  • Public Choice
    Manish G. P., O’Reilly Colin, Banking regulation regulatory capture and inequality
    180:1-2, p. 145 - 164 2019
  • Development Policy Review
    O’Reilly Colin, Zhang Yi, Post-Genocide Justice: The Gacaca Courts
    36:5, p. 561 - 576 2018
  • Applied Economics Letters
    Biswas Arnab, Mitra Aniruddha, Bang James T., O’Reilly Colin, Civil War and Economic Growth: The Case for a Closer Look at Forms of Monilization
    23:15, p. 1057 - 1061 2016
  • World Development
    O’Reilly Colin, Household Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda
    76, p. 203 - 215 2015