Colin O'Reilly, PhD

Director, Menard Family Center for Economic Inquiry

Associate Professor

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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

Books

  • Forced labor: coercion and exploitation in the private economy
    Guerin I, Venkatasubramanian G, O'Reilly C, Roesch M, Sathya M, Empowering communities: lessons from Tamil Nadu, India [Book Chapter] 2009
  • O'Reilly C, Survival strategies of poor women in urban Africa 1995

Publications

  • Journal of Comparative Economics
    O'Reilly Colin, Murphy Ryan H., Freedom from unit roots? The time series properties of democracy and economic freedom 2025
  • Contemporary economic policy
    O’Reilly Colin, Sheehan Kathleen M., Women's property rights equality and entrepreneurial activity 2024
  • Applied economics
    O'Reilly Colin, Murphy Ryan H., 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., O'Reilly Colin, Freedom through taxation: the effect of fiscal capacity on the rule of law 2023
  • The Journal of development studies
    Murphy Ryan, O'reilly Colin, 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, O'Reilly Colin, Regulation and Income Inequality in the United States 2022
  • Economica
    O'Reilly Colin, Murphy Ryan H., An Index Measuring State Capacity 2022
  • JOURNAL OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC CHOICE
    Haveman Scott, O'Reilly Colin, 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, O'Reilly Colin, Regulation and income inequality in the United States, p. 102101 - 102101 2021
  • Public Choice
    Chambers Dustin, O’Reilly Colin, The Economic Theory of Regulation and Inequality 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Iowa 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in North Dakota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Wisconsin 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in South Dakota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Illinois 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Kansas 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Wisconsin 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Wyoming 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Wyoming 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Michigan 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Kansas 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Minnesota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Illinois 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Iowa 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Indiana 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Minnesota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in South Dakota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in North Dakota 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Indiana 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Michigan 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, The Regressive Effects of Regulations in Louisiana 2021
  • Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, 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, O'Reilly Colin, Financial Regulation and Income Inequality
    58:3, p. 33 - 52 2020
  • 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
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
    Murphy Ryan, O'Reilly Colin, 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, O'Reilly Colin, Applying panel vector autoregression to institutions, human capital, and output
    57:5, p. 1633 - 1652 2019
  • Public Choice
    Manish G. P., O’Reilly Colin, Banking regulation regulatory capture and inequality
    180:1-2, p. 145 - 164 2019
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
    O'Reilly Colin, Murphy Ryan H, Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom 2019
  • The journal of regional analysis & policy
    Chambers Dustin, O'Reilly Colin, Entry Regulations and Income Inequality at the Regional Level
    49:1, p. 31 - 39 2019
  • Econ journal watch
    Murphy Ryan H, O'Reilly Colin, 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, Zhang Yi, Post-Genocide Justice: The Gacaca Courts
    36:5, p. 561 - 576 2018
  • Comparative economic studies
    O'Reilly Colin, Murphy Ryan H., Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom
    59:3, p. 243 - 260 2017
  • Contemporary economic policy
    O'Reilly Colin, Murphy Ryan H, DO INSTITUTIONS MITIGATE THE RISK OF NATURAL RESOURCE CONFLICTS?
    35:3, p. 532 - 541 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Exploit Interactive
    O'Reilly C, ELISE 2 project: exploitation of results and tasks undertaken by different partners 1999
  • Administrative science quarterly
    O'Reilly C, Main B, Crystal G, CEO compensation as tournament and social comparison: a tale of two theories
    33:Jun 88, p. 257 - 274 1988
  • ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES QUARTERLY
    O'Reilly C, Weitz B, MANAGING MARGINAL EMPLOYEES: THE USE OF WARNINGS & DISMISSALS
    25:3, p. 467 - 484 1980