Professor Ryan Murphy

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Full-Time Faculty

Research Associate Professor

Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom

Email

rhmurphy@smu.edu

Phone

214-768-3130

Office

Bolin-Bridwell 1126

Website

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Education

PhD, Economics, Suffolk University
MS, Economics, Suffolk University
BA, Economics, Boston College

Biography

Ryan Murphy is a research associate professor at the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â. He received a PhD in economics from Suffolk University in September 2013. His primary research focus is institutional economics.

Research

Institutional Economics


Publications

Murphy, R. H. 2024. "Fundamentals of Institutional Quality and Economic Freedom." Journal of Developing Areas 58(1): 209-220.

Murphy, R. H. 2024. "Prediction Markets as Meta-Episteme." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 83(2): 383-392.

Murphy, R. H. 2024. "Mapping Inflation to Economic Freedom in the Post-COVID Era." Journal of Institutional Economics 20(e16).

Murphy, R. H. 2024. "Economic Freedom of the World in the Universe of Measuring Institutions." In Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom, Niclas Berggren, ed. Edward Elgar, p. 49-60.

Murphy, R. H. 2024. "Economic Freedom, 1950-2020." In Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom, Niclas Berggren, ed. Edward Elgar, p. 32-48.

Murphy, R. H. 2024. "Singapore's Small Developmental State." The Independent Review 28(3): 441-452.

Murphy, R. H. 2023. "The Clear Expectation of Cultural Betterment in the Face of Rising Living Standards." Rationality and Society 35(3): 338-365.

Murphy, R. H. 2023. "State Capacity, Economic Freedom, and Classical Liberalism." Constitutional Political Economy 34(2): 165-187.

O'Reilly, C. and R. H. Murphy. 2023. "Freedom Through Taxation: The Effects of Fiscal Capacity on the Rule of Law." European Journal of Law and Economics 56: 69-90.

Murphy, R. H. 2023. "Measuring Open Access Orders." Journal of Institutional Economics 19(5): 618-634.

Murphy, R. H. and C. O'Reilly. 2023. "The Expansive Corridor: Testing Acemoglu and Robinson (2019)." Journal of Development Studies 59(7): 1060-1075.

Murphy, R. H., E. Taylor, and D. Stansel. 2023. "Economic Freedom at Metropolitan Statistical Area Borders." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 82(2): 141-149.

Murphy, R. H. 2023. "Steady State Economic Freedom." Economics and Business Letters 12(2): 132-136.

Murphy, R. H. 2022. "Economic Freedom without Quality of Government." Journal of Private Enterprise 37(4): 21-42.

Murphy, R. H. 2022. "Breaking Wagner's Law: Which Countries Have the Most Limited Government?" Public Finance Review 50(4): 484-509.

O'Reilly, C. and R. H. Murphy. 2022. "An Index Measuring State Capacity, 1789-2018." Economica 89(355): 713-745.

Murphy, R. H. 2022. "The Constitution of Ambiguity: The Effects of Constitutions on Economic Freedom." Economic Affairs 42(2): 240-258.

Murphy, R. H. 2022. "On Whether the Size of Government Belongs in Economic Freedom Indices." Econ Journal Watch 19(1): 47-57.