Colin O'Reilly

Creighton University

2500 California St.

Omaha, NE 68178

United States

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Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

A New Measure of State Capacity, 1789-2018

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Aug 2020
Colin O'Reilly and Ryan Murphy
Creighton University and Southern Methodist University (SMU)
Downloads 584 (80,998)
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State Capacity, Fiscal Capacity, Legal Capacity, Rule of Law, Varieties of Democracy, Institutional Development, The Narrow Corridor

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Assessing State Capacity Libertarianism

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Feb 2020
Ryan Murphy and Colin O'Reilly
Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Creighton University
Downloads 334 (155,447)
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Economic Freedom, Institutional Quality, State Capacity, State Building

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The Gacaca Courts: Traditional Dispute Resolution in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2016
Colin O'Reilly and Chloe Zhang
Creighton University and Discover Financial Services
Downloads 323 (161,181)

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Law and Economics, Dispute Resolution, Rwanda, Comparative Institutions, Informal Institutions, Post-Conflict Recovery

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

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Mar 2015
Ryan Murphy and Colin O'Reilly
Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Creighton University
Downloads 173 (294,196)
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Economic Growth, Political Institutions, Economic Institutions, Human Capital

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Regulation and Income Inequality in the United States

Mercatus Working Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Jun 2020
Dustin Chambers and Colin O'Reilly
Salisbury University - Department of Economics and Finance and Creighton University
Downloads 154 (324,591)
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regulation, income inequality, FRASE, regressive effects, Gini coefficient, income distribution, economic policy, regulatory policy, federal government

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The Expansive Corridor: Testing Acemoglu and Robinson (2019)

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Apr 2022
Ryan Murphy and Colin O'Reilly
Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Creighton University
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The Narrow Corridor; Civil Society; State Capacity; Social Capital; Institutional Development

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Do Economic and Political Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Resource Conflicts?

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2015
Colin O'Reilly and Ryan Murphy
Creighton University and Southern Methodist University (SMU)
Downloads 113 (411,518)

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Conflict, Civil War, Oil, Natural Resources, Institutions, Conflict Resolution

8.

War and the Growth of Government

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2015
Colin O'Reilly and Benjamin Powell
Creighton University and Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute
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War, Economic Freedom, Size of Government, Institutional Change

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Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2016
Colin O'Reilly and Ryan Murphy
Creighton University and Southern Methodist University (SMU)
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Resource Curse, Economic Freedom, Economic Institutions

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Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2016
Colin O'Reilly
Creighton University
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Civil War, Post-Conflict Recovery, Internal Displacement, Migration, Uganda, Refugees

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Can War Foster Institutional Change?

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Jun 2018
Colin O'Reilly
Creighton University
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Institutional Change, Violent Conflict, Social Capital, Sierra Leone, Burundi

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Investment and Institutions in Post-Civil War Recovery

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Sep 2013
Colin O'Reilly
Creighton University
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Civil War, post-war recovery, institutions, investment, peace dividend

13.

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

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 May 2022
Ryan Murphy and Colin O'Reilly
Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Creighton University
Downloads 48 (667,182)
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Fiscal Capacity, Legal Capacity, Rule of Law, Institutional Development, State Capacity, Stationary Bandit

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

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Jun 2022
Colin O'Reilly
Creighton University
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Barriers to Entry, Cost of Starting a Business, Regulation, Entrepreneurship, Income Inequality

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Firm Investment Decisions in the Post-Conflict Context

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Aug 2014
Colin O'Reilly
Creighton University
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Post-Civil War Recovery, Civil Conflict, Reinvestment, Property Rights, Judicial Institutions

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Violent Conflict and the Strength of Civil Society

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Sep 2021
Colin O'Reilly
Creighton University
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Institutional Change, Violent Conflict, Informal Norms, Civil Society

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Gender, Property Rights and Economic Growth: Including Women’s Rights in Studies of Growth

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2023
Kathleen Sheehan and Colin O'Reilly
Creighton University and Creighton University
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Economic Growth, Property Rights, Institutions, Gender, Economic Development

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

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Aug 2022
Ryan H. Murphy and Colin O'Reilly
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Creighton University
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Fiscal Capacity, Legal Capacity, Rule of Law, Institutional Development, State Capacity, Stationary Bandit

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

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 22 Nov 2023
Colin O'Reilly and Ryan Murphy
Creighton University and Southern Methodist University (SMU)
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Economic Freedom; Democracy; Cointegration