Publications

2024

Petach, L., and Crowther, I. 2024. ``Absentee Ownership and Rental Affordability: Evidence from Commuting Zones.” Forum for Social Economics. Link.

Petach, L. 2024. ``Do Small Dollar Loans Increase Low Income and Minority Homeownership? Evidence from the USDA Section 502 Lending Program.” Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 54(1): 115-136. Link.

Petach, L., and Raines, P. 2024. ``The House Always Wins: Gambling as a Veblenian Social Practice.” Journal of Economic Issues, 58(2): 619-626. Link.

Petach, L. 2024. ``Monopsony in the Market for Religion.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 221: 423-435. Link.

Petach, L. and Wyant, D. 2024. “Medical Expenditures and the Measurement of Poverty in the United States.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. Link.

Petach, L., and Rumbaugh, D. 2024. ``Hate Crime and Human Capital.” Review of Black Political Economy. Link.

Petach, L., Totten, G., and Weiler, S. 2024. ``Geography Matters: The Impact of Geographic Expansion on Bank Performance During the Great Recession."  Papers in Regional Science, 103(1). Link.

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. ``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.” PKES Working Paper 2407. Link. Revise and Resubmit.

Petach, L. ``That Old Time Religion: Christianity and Black Economic Progress After Reconstruction.” GLO Discussion Paper 1480. Link. Under Review.