Wallace E. Oates

Who is Wallace E. Oates?

Wallace E. Oates is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland.

He teaches in the fields of public economics and environmental economics. His first book was Fiscal Federalism and he has authored numerous other books and articles, including The Theory of Environmental Policy, coauthored with William J. Baumol. He is considered a major figure in the area of public economics. A Festschrift, 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.