Wallace E. Oates (March 21, 1937 – October 30, 2015) was a Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland.[1]

Wallace E. Oates
BornMarch 21, 1937
DiedOctober 30, 2015
Academic career
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, Princeton University
Alma materStanford

He taught in the fields of public economics and environmental economics, and was considered a major international figure in both fields.[1] His first book was Fiscal Federalism (1972) and he authored numerous other books and articles, including The Theory of Environmental Policy (1975), coauthored with William J. Baumol. A Festschrift, Environmental and public economics : essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates, was published in his honor in 1999,[2] and an additional volume of his selected essays in 2004.[3] Another Festschrift, The Tiebout Model at fifty : essays in public economics in honor of Wallace Oates was published in his honor in 2006.[4]

He received his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford in 1965 and joined the faculty at Princeton University.[1] He began at the University of Maryland in 1979.[5]

Publications

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  • 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 [Cambridgeshire]: 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 [6]
  • Oates, Wallace E. Fiscal Federalism. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 595 libraries [7] Reprinted, 2011 [8]
    • 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

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  1. ^ a b c "In Memoriam: Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Wallace Oates". University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. November 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  2. ^ Oates, Wallace E; Panagariya, Arvind; Portney, Paul R; Schwab, Robert M (1 June 1999). Environmental and public economics: essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates. E. Elgar. OCLC 39981198. Retrieved 1 June 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
  3. ^ Oates, Wallace E. Environmental Policy and Fiscal Federalism: Selected Essays of Wallace E. Oates. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Pub, 2004.World Cat item entry
  4. ^ Cambridge, Mass: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2006.
  5. ^ "Wallace Oates's Research". econweb.umd.edu. Archived from the original on 24 May 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  6. ^ Oates, Wallace E (1 June 1992). The Economics of the environment. E. Elgar. OCLC 26094553. Retrieved 1 June 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
  7. ^ Oates, Wallace E (1 June 1972). Fiscal federalism. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. OCLC 277959. Retrieved 1 June 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
  8. ^ Oates, Wallace E (1 June 2019). Fiscal federalism. Edward Elgar Pub. OCLC 794571639. Retrieved 1 June 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
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