Department

• Economics and Finance

Position

• Associate Professor

• Intermediate Macroeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• Money and the Financial System

Colin O’Reilly is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University. He is also a scholar at the Institute for Economic Inquiry and the director of the Business Research Fellows program. In 2014 Colin received his Ph.D. in economics from Suffolk University where he studied economic development and capital accumulation fol­lowing violent conflict. His research on institutions and economic development includes case studies of firm investment decisions in Eastern Europe and refugees in Uganda that have been published in Economic of Transition and World Development. Colin has also published cross-country studies on economic growth and inequality in Empirical Economics and Public Choice. 

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

• The champions of capitalism? National leaders and the institutional channel, Applied Economics Letters, 27(8) , 647-650, 2020
• Entry Regulations and Income Inequality at the Regional Level, Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 49(1), 31-39, 2019
• Applying Panel Vector Autoregression to Institutions, Human Capital, and Output, Empirical Economics, 57, 1633-1652, 2019
• Banking regulation regulatory capture and inequality, Public Choice, 180(1), 145-164, 2019
• And the IMF Said, Let There Be Data, and There Was Data: Private Capital Stocks in the Eastern Bloc, Econ Journal Watch, 15(3) , 290-300, 2018
• Post-Genocide Justice: The Gacaca Courts, Development Policy Review, 36(5) , 561-576, 2018
• Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom , Comparative Economic Studies, 59(3), 243-260, 2017
• Do Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Conflicts?  , Contemporary Economic Policy, 35(3), 532-541, 2017
• Civil War and Economic Growth: The Case for a Closer Look at Forms of Monilization , Applied Economics Letters, 23 Issue 15, 1057-1061, 2016
• War and Growth of Government , European Journal of Political Economy, 40, 31-41, 2015
• Household Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda, World Development, 76, 203-215, 2015
• Firm Investment Decisions in Post-Conflict Context, Economics of Transition, 23-4, 717-751, 2015
• Institutions and Investment in Post Civil War Recovery , Comparative Economic Studies, 56-1, 1-24, 2014

Presentations

• “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 Change
  Presented: 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