Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
Gilpatric, Scott M. and Youping Li. (2021) “Endogenous Price Leadership and Product Positioning” Review of Industrial Organization 58: 287-302.
Evans, Mary F., Scott M. Gilpatric and Jay P. Shimshack. (2018) “Enforcement spillovers: Lessons from strategic interactions in regulation and product markets.” Journal of Law and Economics 61, 739-769.
Vossler, Christian A. and Scott M. Gilpatric. (2018) “Endogenous audits, uncertainty, and taxpayer assistance services: Theory and experiments.” Journal of Public Economics 165, 217-229.
Scott M. Gilpatric and Cristina Reiser (2017). “Why Zero Tolerance of Misconduct is Undesirable in Contests.” Economic Inquiry 55, 1145-1160.
Evans, Mary F. and Scott M. Gilpatric (2017). “Abatement, Care, and Compliance by Firms in Financial Distress.” Environmental and Resource Economics 66, 765-794.
Gilpatric, Scott M., Christian A. Vossler and Lirong Liu. (2015) “Using Competition to Stimulate Regulatory Compliance: a Tournament-based Dynamic Targeting Mechanism”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 119, 182-196.
Gilpatric, Scott M. and Youping Li (2015). “Endogenous Price Leadership and the Strategic Acquisition of Information.” Southern Economic Journal 82(3), 589-873.
Gilpatric, Scott M. and Youping Li (2015). Information Value under Demand Uncertainty and Endogenous Market Leadership. Economic Inquiry 53(1), 589-603.
Gilpatric, Scott M., Christian A. Vossler and Michael McKee (2011). Regulatory Enforcement with Competitive Endogenous Audit Mechanisms. RAND Journal of Economics 42(2), 292-312.
Gilpatric, Scott M. (2011). Cheating in Contests. Economic Inquiry 49(4), 1042-1053.
Stowe, C. Jill, and Scott M. Gilpatric (2010). Cheating and Enforcement in Asymmetric Rank-Order Tournaments. Southern Economic Journal 77(1), 1-14 (lead article).
Evans, Mary F., Scott M. Gilpatric and Lirong Liu (2009). Regulation with Direct Benefits of Information Disclosure and Imperfect Monitoring. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 57(3), 284-292.
Gilpatric, Scott M. (2009). Risk Taking in Contests and the Role of Carrots and Sticks. Economic Inquiry 47(2), 266-277.
Gilpatric, Scott M. (2009). Slippage in Rebate Programs and Present-Biased Preferences. Marketing Science 28(2), 229-238.
Gilpatric, Scott M. (2008). Present-Biased Preferences, Self-Awareness, and Shirking. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 67(3), 735-754.
Booker, Kevin, Scott M. Gilpatric, Timothy Gronberg and Dennis Jansen (2008). The Effect of Charter Schools on Traditional Public School Students in Texas: Are Children Who Stay Behind Left Behind? Journal of Urban Economics, 64(1), 123-145.
Booker, Kevin, Scott M. Gilpatric, Timothy Gronberg and Dennis Jansen (2007). The Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Performance. Journal of Public Economics, 91(5), 849-876.
Gilpatric, Scott M., Christian A. Vossler and Michael McKee, Michael McKee and Christian A. Vossler (2008). Managerial Incentives for Compliance with Environmental Information Disclosure Programs. In Experimental Methods, Environmental Economics, edited by Todd L. Cherry, Stephan Kroll and Jason F. Shogren. UK: Routledge.
Gilpatric, Scott M. and Richard V. Butler (2002). Debt Matters: The Firm’s Optimization Problem with Financial Distress. International Business and Economics Research Journal, 1 (10).
Butler, Richard V. and Scott M. Gilpatric (1994). A Re-Examination of the Purposes and Goals of Bankruptcy. American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, 2 (2), 269-291.
Working Papers:
Product Quality Investment and Third-Party Certification in Potential Lemons Markets (with Dong Yan and Christian Vossler)
Motivating Workers through Task Assignment: A Dynamic Model of Up-and-Down Competition for Status (with Julianna Butler and Christian Vossler).
Optimal Contest Design when Policing Damaging Actions (with Ye Hong)
Competition and Core Competency: Risk Independence as a Strategy (with Nicholas Busko).