Wallace E. Oates

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

He taught in the fields of public economics and environmental economics, 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 William J. Baumol. 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.

He received his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford in 1965 and joined the faculty at Princeton University. He began at the University of Maryland in 1979. In 2002, he was awarded the Daniel M. Holland Medal for exceptional contribution to the field of taxation and public finance. Provided by Wikipedia