Colin W. O’Reilly

Research

Institutions and economic development, violent conflict, regulation and income inequality.

Selected publications

  1. A Practical Measure of Red Tape

    With Dustin ChambersRegulation & Governance 20(4): 1672–17032026

  2. Freedom from Unit Roots? The Time Series Properties of Democracy and Economic Freedom

    With Ryan H. MurphyJournal of Comparative Economics 53(2)2025

  3. An Index Measuring State Capacity, 1789–2018

    With Ryan H. MurphyEconomica 89(355): 713–7452022

  4. The Economic Theory of Regulation and Inequality

    With Dustin ChambersPublic Choice 193: 63–78Special issue2022

Journal articles

33 articles

2026

  1. Sequencing Institutional Development: The Modernization Hypothesis Reconsidered

    With Ryan H. MurphyJournal of Comparative Economics 54(3): 846–868

  2. A Practical Measure of Red Tape

    With Dustin ChambersRegulation & Governance 20(4): 1672–1703

2025

  1. Freedom from Unit Roots? The Time Series Properties of Democracy and Economic Freedom

    With Ryan H. MurphyJournal of Comparative Economics 53(2)

  2. The Legal Protection of Women's Property Rights, Factors of Production, and Economic Growth

    With Kathleen SheehanEconomics Letters 255: 112504

  3. Women's Property Rights Equality and Entrepreneurial Activity

    With Kathleen SheehanContemporary Economic Policy 43(4): 621–637

  4. The Dynamics of Non-Intervention: Applying the Dynamic Common Correlated Effects Estimator to State-Level Economic Freedom

    With Ryan H. MurphyApplied Economics 57(51): 8612–8626

  5. Contestable Monopolies on Violence: Polycentricity, Rebel Groups, and Institutional Quality

    With Ryan H. MurphyCivil Wars 27(2)

2024

  1. Governance in the Aftermath of Violent Internal Conflict

    The Independent ReviewWinter 2024/25, special issue

  2. In the Name of Mazu: The Effect of Foreign Electoral Intervention on Taiwan through Religion

    With Chien-Yuan Sher, Chung-Pei Pien and Yu-Hsi LiuForeign Policy Analysis 20(3): orae009

2023

  1. The Expansive Corridor: Testing Acemoglu and Robinson (2019)

    With Ryan H. MurphyJournal of Development Studies 59(7): 1060–1075

  2. Freedom Through Taxation: The Effect of Fiscal Capacity on the Rule of Law

    With Ryan H. MurphyEuropean Journal of Law and Economics 56: 69–90

  3. Violent Conflict and the Strength of Civil Society

    International Journal of Development and Conflict 13: 57–73

2022

  1. Barriers to Entry, Entrepreneurship, and Income Inequality within the United States

    Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 11(4): 332–356

  2. An Index Measuring State Capacity, 1789–2018

    With Ryan H. MurphyEconomica 89(355): 713–745

  3. The Economic Theory of Regulation and Inequality

    With Dustin ChambersPublic Choice 193: 63–78Special issue

  4. Regulation and Income Inequality in the United States

    With Dustin ChambersEuropean Journal of Political Economy 72: 102101

2021

  1. Tax Policy and Charitable Giving: An Evaluation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

    With Scott HavemanJournal of Public Finance and Public Choice 36(2): 189–207

  2. Violent Conflict and Institutional Change

    Economics of Transition and Institutional Change 29(2): 257–317

2020

  1. Financial Regulation and Income Inequality

    With G. P. ManishQuarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting 58(3): 33–52Special issue

  2. Assessing State Capacity Libertarianism

    With Ryan H. MurphyCato Journal 40(3): 735–767

  3. The Champions of Capitalism? National Leaders and the Institutional Channel

    With Ryan H. MurphyApplied Economics Letters 27(8): 647–650

2019

  1. Applying Panel Vector Autoregression to Institutions, Human Capital, and Output

    With Ryan H. MurphyEmpirical Economics 57(5): 1633–1652

  2. Entry Regulations and Income Inequality at the Regional Level

    With Dustin ChambersJournal of Regional Analysis & Policy 49(1): 31–39

  3. Banking Regulation, Regulatory Capture and Inequality

    With G. P. ManishPublic Choice 180(1): 145–164Special issue

2018

  1. And the IMF Said, Let There Be Data, and There Was Data: Private Capital Stocks in the Eastern Bloc

    With Ryan H. MurphyEcon Journal Watch 15(3): 290–300

  2. Post-Genocide Justice: The Gacaca Courts

    With Yi ZhangDevelopment Policy Review 36(5): 561–576

2017

  1. Do Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Resource Conflicts?

    With Ryan H. MurphyContemporary Economic Policy 35(3): 532–541

  2. Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom

    With Ryan H. MurphyComparative Economic Studies 59(3): 243–260

2016

  1. Civil War and Economic Growth: The Case for a Closer Look at Forms of Mobilization

    With Arnab Biswas, James T. Bang and Aniruddha MitraApplied Economics Letters 23(15): 1057–1061

2015

  1. War and the Growth of Government

    With Benjamin PowellEuropean Journal of Political Economy 40: 31–41

  2. Household Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda

    World Development 76: 203–215

  3. Firm Investment Decisions in the Post-Conflict Context

    Economics of Transition 23(4): 717–751

2014

  1. Institutions and Investment in Post-Civil War Recovery

    Comparative Economic Studies 56(1): 1–24

Works in progress

  1. Selecting on the Dependent Variable and the Average Treatment Effect of Decentralized Institutions

    With Ryan H. Murphy

  2. Human Freedom and Life Satisfaction

    With Ryan H. Murphy

  3. Policy “Readability”: An Application to Price Controls

    With Vincent Carret

  4. Gender, Property Rights and Economic Growth: Including Women's Rights in Studies of Growth

    With Kathleen Sheehan

  5. Freedom of Association for the Dimensions of Economic Freedom

    With Ryan H. Murphy

Other publications

  1. Integrating the Economic Way of Thinking into US History Courses

    Book chapter With M. Scott NiederjohnIn Teaching Economics: Perspectives on Innovative Economics Education, eds. J. Hall and K. Lawson. Springer2019

  2. Review of Market Rules by Mark H. Rose

    Book review The Independent Review 24(2)Winter 2019/202019

Policy briefs and op-eds are listed under Policy & Opinion.