Wallace E. Oates Explained

Wallace E. Oates
Birth Date:	March 21, 1937
Death Date:	October 30, 2015
Institutions:	University of Maryland, Princeton University
Alma Mater:	Stanford

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

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

• 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.

External links

• Faculty profile at University of Maryland

Notes and References

1. Web site: In Memoriam: Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Wallace Oates. November 2015. University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. 7 November 2015.
2. Book: Environmental and public economics: essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates. Wallace E. Oates. Arvind. Panagariya. Paul R. Portney. Robert M. Schwab. 1 June 1999. E. Elgar. 39981198. 1 June 2019. 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. Web site: Wallace Oates's Research . econweb.umd.edu . 17 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100524152439/http://econweb.umd.edu/~oates/bio.htm . 24 May 2010 . dead.
6. Book: Oates, Wallace E. The Economics of the environment. 1 June 1992. E. Elgar. 26094553. 1 June 2019. Open WorldCat.
7. Book: Oates, Wallace E. Fiscal federalism. 1 June 1972. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 277959. 1 June 2019. Open WorldCat.
8. Book: Oates, Wallace E. Fiscal federalism. 1 June 2019. Edward Elgar Pub.. 794571639. 1 June 2019. Open WorldCat.