Working Papers

Scott M. Gilpatric

Cheating in Contests, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.

Cheating in Asymmetric Tournaments, with Jill Stowe, Southern Economics Journal, forthcoming.

Regulation with Direct Benefits of Information Disclosure and Imperfect Monitoring, with Mary F. Evans and Lirong Liu, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.

Risk Taking in Contests and the Role of Carrots and Sticks, 2009, Economic Inquiry, 47(2). 266-277.

Slippage in Rebate Programs and Present-Biased Preferences, 2009, Marketing Science, 28(2), 229-238.

Present-Biased Preferences, Self-Awareness and Shirking, 2008, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 67(3), 735-754.

The Effect of Charter Schools on Traditional Public School Students in Texas: Are Children Who Stay Behind Left Behind? with Kevin Booker, Timothy Gronberg, and Dennis Jansen, 2008, Journal of Urban Economics, 64, 123-145.

The Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Performance, with Kevin Booker, Timothy Gronberg, and Dennis Jansen, 2007, Journal of Public Economics 91 (5), 849-876.

Debt Matters: The Firm's Optimization Problem with Financial Distress, with Richard Butler, International Business and Economics Research Journal, 1 (10), October 2002, 119-131.

A Re-Examination of the Purposes and Goals of Bankruptcy, with Richard Butler, American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, 2 (2) Winter 1994, 119-131.

Publications