Publications

2023

Petach, L. 2023. ``The Timber Wars: The Endangered Species Act, the Northwest Forest Plan, and the Political Economy of Timber Management in the Pacific Northwest.” Public Choice. Link.

Petach, L., and Wilson, A. 2023. ``The Rise of Guard Labor in the United States: Evidence from Local Labor Markets.” Review of Radical Political Economics. Online September 2023. Link.

Petach, L. 2023. ``Capital-Labor Substitution in the Production of Religious Goods.” Economics Letters, 232. Link.

Petach, L., and Powell, A. 2023. ``Religion and Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties.” Review of Regional Studies, 53(2); 192-210. Link.

Petach, L. 2023. ``The Samuels-Buchanan Correspondence and the Lost Opportunity for a Positive Public Choice Scholarship.” Journal of Economic Issues, 57(3): 760-776. Link.

Petach, L. 2023. ``Natural Amenities and Neo-Hobbesian Local Public Finance.” Constitutional Political Economy. Online March 2023. Link.

Petach, L., and Raines, J.P. 2023. ``Thorstein Veblen on the Cultural and Economic Significance of Modern Sports.” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 47(2): 435-449. Link.

2022

Petach, L., and Wyant, D. 2022. ``The Union Advantage: Union Membership, Access to Care, and the Affordable Care Act.” International Journal of Health Economics and Management. Online July 2022. Link.

Petach, L. 2022. ``A Tullock Index for Assessing the Effectiveness of Redistribution.” Public Choice, 191: 137-159. Link.

Petach, L., and Tavani, D. 2022. ``Aggregate Demand Externalities, Income Distribution, and Effective Demand.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 60: 433-446. Link.

2021

Kacher, N., and Petach, L. 2021. ``Boon or Burden? Evaluating the Competing Effects of House Price Shocks on Regional Entrepreneurship.” Economic Development Quarterly, 35(4): 287-304. Link.

Petach, L., and Rumbaugh, D. 2021. ``Are You Ready for Some Football? Estimating the Effect of American Football Season on Labor Supply in the United States.” Journal of Sports Economics, 22(8): 893-920. Link.

Petach, L. 2021. ``Spatial Keynesian Policy and the Decline of Regional Income Convergence in the United States.” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 45(3): 487-510. Link.

Petach, L., and Tavani, D. 2021. ``Differential Rates of Return and Racial Wealth Inequality.” Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 4: 115-165. Link.

Petach, L., Conroy, T., and Weiler, S. 2021. ``It’s a Wonderful Loan: Local Financial Composition, Community Banks, and Economic Resilience.” Journal of Banking and Finance, 126. Link.

Petach, L., and Pena, A. 2021. ``Local Labor Market Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Review of Black Political Economy, 48(1): 7-41. Link.

Petach, L., and Tavani, D. 2021. ``Firm Beliefs and Long-Run Demand Effects in a Labor-Constrained Model of Growth and Distribution.” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 31: 353-377. Link.

2020

Petach, L. 2020. ``Income Stagnation and Housing Affordability in the United States.” Review of Social Economy. Online May 2020. Link.

Petach, L. ``Distribution and Capacity Utilization in the United States: Evidence From State-level Data."  Review of Keynesian Economics, 8(2): 240-267. Link .

Petach, L. 2020. ``Local Financialization, Household Debt, and the Great Recession." Papers in Regional Science, 99(3): 807-839. Link.

Petach, L., and Tavani, D. 2020. ``Income Shares, Secular Stagnation, and the Long-Run Distribution of Wealth.” Metroeconomica, 71(1): 235-255. Link.

2019

Fremstad, A., Petach, L., and Tavani, D. 2019. ``Climate Change, Innovation, and Growth: the Contributions of William Nordhaus and Paul Romer.” Review of Political Economy. Online October 2019. Link.

Petach, L., and Tavani, D. 2019. ``No One is Alone: Strategic Complementarities, Capacity Utilization, Growth, and Distribution.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 50: 203-2015. Link.

Petach, L., and Tavani, D. 2019. ``Consumption Externalities and Growth: Theory and Evidence for the United States." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Online March 2019. Link.

2018 and Earlier

Petach, L. 2018. ``Inequality and the Rate of Return on Capital: An Institutional Approach to `The Piketty Problem.' " Journal of Economic Issues, 52(4): 925-946. Link. 

Petach, L. 2017. ``Politics, Preferences, and Prices: The Political Consequences of Inequality." Real World Economics Review, 80: 2-13. Link.

Peach, N.D., and Petach, L. 2016. ``Development and Quality of Life in Cities." Economic Development Quarterly, 30(1):32-45. Link.  

Petach, L. 2015. ``Methodology in Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A `New Historical' Approach to Political Economy." Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 8(2): 21-33. Link.

Works in Progress

Petach, L., Totten, G., and Weiler, S. ``Geography Matters: The Impact of Geographic Expansion on Bank Performance During the Great Recession."  Accepted at Papers in Regional Science.

Petach, L., and Rumbaugh, D. ``Hate Crime and Human Capital.” Accepted at Review of Black Political Economy.

Petach, L. ``Monopsony in the Market for Religion.” Under Review.

Petach, L. ``Estimating Regional Inflation: A Quantity Theory Approach.” Under Review.

Petach, L. and Wyant, D. “Medical Expenditures and the Measurement of Poverty in the United States.” Revisions Submitted to Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

Petach, L. ``Income Distribution and Effective Demand: Evidence from Regional MPCs.”

Petach, L. ``Do Small Dollar Loans Increase Low-Income and Minority Homeownership? Evidence from the USDA Section 502 Lending Program.”

Petach, L. ``Keynesian Crossroads: Lorie Tarshis, Paul Samuelson, and the Long-Run Consequences of Academic McCarthyism.”

Petach, L. ``Assessing the Political Aspects of Full Employment: Evidence from Strikes and Lockouts.”