Rate My Professor Colin O'Reilly

Colin O'Reilly is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University, where he also serves as Director of the Menard Family Center for Economic Inquiry and as a scholar in the Institute for Economic Inquiry. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Suffolk University in 2014, focusing his doctoral studies on economic development and violent conflict. O'Reilly's research centers on institutions and economic development, with additional work on economic growth, inequality, regulation, and post-conflict recovery. His publications appear in leading journals such as World Development, Economica, Empirical Economics, and Public Choice. He is also an editor for the Journal of Regulatory Economics.

Among his key publications are 'An Index Measuring State Capacity, 1789–2018' co-authored with Ryan H. Murphy in Economica (2022), 'War and the Growth of Government' with Benjamin Powell in European Journal of Political Economy (2015), 'Applying Panel Vector Autoregression to Institutions, Human Capital, and Output' with Ryan H. Murphy in Empirical Economics (2019), and 'Banking Regulation, Regulatory Capture and Inequality' with G. P. Manish in Public Choice (2019). Other significant works include 'Household Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda' in World Development (2015), 'Regulation and Income Inequality in the United States' with Dustin Chambers in European Journal of Political Economy (2022), 'The Economic Theory of Regulation and Inequality' with Dustin Chambers in Public Choice (2022), 'Investment and Institutions in Post-Civil War Recovery' in Comparative Economic Studies (2014), and 'Firm Investment Decisions in the Post-Conflict Context' in Economics of Transition and Institutional Change (2015). Recent publications address women's property rights and entrepreneurship, non-intervention dynamics in economic freedom, and financial regulation's impact on inequality. O'Reilly's contributions examine barriers to entry, state capacity, and the institutional channels influencing economic outcomes.