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Luke Petach

Belmont University

1900 Belmont Blvd.

Nashville, TN 37212-3757

United States

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1.

Climate Change, Innovation, and Economic Growth: The Contributions of William Nordhaus and Paul Romer

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Oct 2019
Anders Fremstad, Luke Petach and Daniele Tavani
Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics, Belmont University and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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Climate Change, Innovation, Growth, Romer, Nordhaus

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Aggregate Demand Externalities, Income Distribution, and Wealth Inequality

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2021
Luke Petach and Daniele Tavani
Belmont University and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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Externalities, Capacity Utilization, Factor Shares, Wealth Inequality

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The Rise of Guard Labor in the United States: Evidence from Local Labor Markets

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2021
Luke Petach and Anastasia Wilson
Belmont University and Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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Guard Labor, Supervisory Labor, Incomplete Contracts, Inequality, Local Labor Markets

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Differential Rates of Return and Racial Wealth Inequality

Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 08 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2021
Luke Petach and Daniele Tavani
Belmont University and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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Rates of Return, Racial Wealth Inequality, Stratification Economics

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Consumption Externalities and Growth: Theory and Evidence for the United States

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2018
Luke Petach and Daniele Tavani
Belmont University and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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Consumption Externalities, Endogenous Growth, Neoclassical Growth, Treatment Effects

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No One is Alone: Strategic Complementarities, Capacity Utilization, Growth, and Distribution

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2019
Luke Petach and Daniele Tavani
Belmont University and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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Capacity Utilization, Factor Shares, Growth, Strategic Complementarities

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Your Money or Your Life: How Healthcare Expenditures Make Us Poor and What Can Be Done to Fix It

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Feb 2023
Luke Petach and David Wyant
Belmont University and Belmont University
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Poverty, Healthcare, Health Insurance, Medicare for All, Affordable Care Act

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Income Shares, Secular Stagnation, and the Long-Run Distribution of Wealth

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2019
Luke Petach and Daniele Tavani
Belmont University and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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Capital-Income Ratio, Secular Stagnation, Factor Shares, Wealth Inequality

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A Tullock Index for Assessing the Efficiency of Redistribution

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2021
Luke Petach
Belmont University
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Inequality, Gordon Tullock, Public Choice, Redistribution

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Monopsony in the Market for Religion

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Dec 2023
Luke Petach
Belmont University
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Economics of Religion, Labor Market Monopsony, Market Power, Industrial Organization

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Firm Beliefs and Long-Run Demand Effects in a Labor-Constrained Model of Growth and Distribution

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 20 May 2019
Daniele Tavani and Luke Petach
Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics and Belmont University
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Beliefs, Capacity Utilization, Coordination Failures, Factor Shares, Fiscal Policy

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The end of laissez-faire in classical-Marxian models of growth and distribution

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 May 2025 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2025
Luke Petach and Daniele Tavani
Belmont University and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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B12, O41, E11, E12 Growth and Distribution, Classical Political Economy, John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-Faire

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Aggregate Demand Externalities and Capacity Utilization: a Response to Gahn (2023)

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Dec 2025
Luke Petach and Daniele Tavani
Belmont University and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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Externalities, Income Distribution

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Consumption Externalities and Growth: Online Appendix

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Jan 2019
Luke Petach and Daniele Tavani
Belmont University and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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Consumption Externalities, Endogenous Growth

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Capital-Labor Substitution in the Production of Religious Goods

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 31 Jul 2023
Luke Petach
Belmont University
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Religion, Capital-Labor Substitution, Religious Production

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That Old Time Religion: Christianity and Black Economic Progress after Reconstruction

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Aug 2024
Luke Petach
Belmont University
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Economics of Religion, Stratification Economics, Economic History, Post-Reconstruction, Lost Cause