Wallace E. Oates (March 21, 1937 – October 30, 2015) was a Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the

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. He taught in the fields of

public economics Public economics ''(or economics of the public sector)'' is the study of government policy through the lens of economic efficiency and equity. Public economics builds on the theory of welfare economics and is ultimately used as a tool to improve s ...

and

environmental economics Environmental economics is a sub-field of economics concerned with environmental issues. It has become a widely studied subject due to growing environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. Environmental economics "undertakes theoretical or ...

, and was considered a major international figure in both fields. His first book was ''Fiscal Federalism'' (1972) and he authored numerous other books and articles, including ''The Theory of Environmental Policy'' (1975), coauthored with

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. A

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, ''Environmental and public economics : essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates'', was published in his honor in 1999, and an additional volume of his selected essays in 2004. Another Festschrift, ''The Tiebout Model at fifty : essays in public economics in honor of Wallace Oates'' was published in his honor in 2006. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford in 1965 and joined the faculty at

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. He began at the University of Maryland in 1979.

Publications

* Ladd, Helen F., and Wallace E. Oates.'' Local Government Tax and Land Use Policies in the United States: Understanding the Links. Cheltenham'', UK: Edward Elgar, 1998. *Oates, Wallace E. ''The Economics of Fiscal Federalism and Local Finance.'' Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1998. *Oates, Wallace E. ''The Economics of Environmental Regulation.'' Cheltenham, U.K.: E. Elgar, 1996. *Oates, Wallace E. ''Studies in Fiscal Federalism.'' Aldershot, Hants, England: E. Elgar, 1991. *Baumol, William J., and Wallace E. Oates.'' The Theory of Environmental Policy.'' Cambridge ambridgeshire Cambridge University Press, 1988. **Translated into Spanish in 1982 as ''La teoría de la política económica del medio ambiente.'' *Oates, Wallace E. ''The Economics of the Environment.'' Aldershot, Hants, England: E. Elgar, 1992. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 462 libraries *Oates, Wallace E. ''Fiscal Federalism.'' New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 595 libraries Reprinted, 2011 **Translated into Spanish as ''Federalismo fiscal'', 1977 *Baumol, William J., Wallace E. Oates, and Sue Anne Batey Blackman. ''Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life.'' Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979. *Oates, Wallace E. ''The Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism.'' Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1977. *Kelejian, Harry H., and Wallace E. Oates. ''Introduction to Econometrics; Principles and Applications.'' New York: Harper & Row, 1974. **Translated into Portuguese as ''Introdução a econometria principios e aplicações'', 1978 **Translated into Spanish as '' Introducción a la econometría : principios y aplicaciones '' in 1995 *McKinnon, Ronald I., and Wallace E. Oates. ''The Implications of International Economic Integration for Monetary, Fiscal, and Exchange-Rate Policy.'' Princeton, N.J.: International Finance Section, Dept. of Economics, Princeton University, 1966.

References

External links

Faculty profile at University of Maryland
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