Associate Professor of Economics
Director of the Menard Center for Economic Inquiry
Opinions are my own
https://t.co/Ker6Q5Hm99colinworeilly.comJoined February 2009
🧵 THREAD: "Fed Goes Back to Basics with Framework Revisions", my latest for @aier
The Fed just updated its monetary policy framework, scrapping its "make-up" inflation policy and going back to basics. 1/12
Does giving small mobile providers access to big networks hurt investment?
A new study says no: In Spain, it actually boosted investment. In Germany, no downside.
This study challenges the common belief that telecom access rules harm infrastructure.
#Telecom#MVNO#Regulation
In our June 2025 issue:
Net neutrality improves welfare, but only when market power is balanced.
New research shows how outcomes shift depending on who’s in control: ISPs or platforms.
#EconTwitter#NetNeutrality#DigitalPolicy
Kate Sheehan and I just published, "The legal protection of women’s property rights, factors of production, and economic growth" in Economics Letters. We find that women’s property rights may affect economic growth by making human capital more productive:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lTX-bZee6HgO
As seen in @TheRegReview 's Week in Review!
A study from JRE explores how the threat of Right to Repair laws can push manufacturers to share info, which leads to
📈More competition
📉Lower repair costs
⚡Less e-waste
Learn more by accessing "Demand Response in Wholesale Electricity Markets: The Choice of Customer Baseline" - Journal of Regulatory Economics doi.org/10.1007/s11149…
🗄️May Article from the Archive!🗄️
Can pricing electricity differently change household consumption? This research suggests it can, and by a lot.
⚡TOU: -3 - 6%
⚡CPP: -13 - 20%
⚡With smart tech: -44%
#EnergyEconomics#DemandResponse#DynamicPricing#TBT#Research
🌳Right to Repair laws
This study explores how even the threat of right to repair laws can push manufacturers to share repair information and parts, which leads to:
📈More competition
📉Lower repair costs
⚡Less e-waste
A win for business, consumers, and the planet!🌏
Are you interested in the impacts of state-level regulation on economic growth, entrepreneurship, and employment?
Call for papers: special issue of the Journal of Regulatory Economics on "The Burden of State-Level Administrative Rules"
Kate Sheehan and I just published a paper studying Women's property rights equality and entrepreneurial activity. Check it out here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/S…
The Heider College of Business at Creighton University is hiring for an Instructor/Assistant Professor of Practice of Economics. Please apply or share with anyone looking for a full time position!
The job is now posted on the CU website here:
creighton.edu/instructorassi…
Sign up for a webinar on running successful undergrad programming with panelists from the Menard Family Center for Economic Inquiry at Creighton. The webinar is October 22nd from 11 to noon central time.
theihs.org/academic-progr…
New paper by me and @colinworeilly on the effects of state-level economic freedom on economic performance. We apply advances in panel methodology that use EFNA's lengthy time dimension to account for cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneous slopes.
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Co-author: Ten Global Trends, Superabundance & The Simon Abundance Index
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