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D-Index
60
Citations
46020
World Ranking
791
National Ranking
492

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1974 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Wallace E. Oates was affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States during their academic career. Their work contributed to the fields of economics, primarily focusing on areas related to public finance and environmental economics.

The scientist held the distinction of being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1974, reflecting recognition of contributions to their discipline during that period.

Oates's research did not list specific recent papers, frequent co-authors, or particular venues where their work was predominantly published in the provided data.

Similarly, there was no detailed information regarding specific book publications, subfields of study, or main topics covered in their academic output available in the source data.

Their career legacy is tied to a scholarly presence at a major research university in the United States, with a focus that typically aligned with public economics, although no detailed publications or collaborations were cited here.

Best Publications

  • The theory of environmental policy

    William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates

  • An Essay on Fiscal Federalism

    Wallace E. Oates

  • Environmental Economics: A Survey

    Maureen L. Cropper;Wallace E. Oates

  • Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?

    Karen Palmer;Wallace E. Oates;Paul R. Portney

  • The Effects of Property Taxes and Local Public Spending on Property Values: An Empirical Study of Tax Capitalization and the Tiebout Hypothesis

    Wallace E. Oates

  • The Use of Standards and Prices for Protection of the Environment

    William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates

  • Economic competition among jurisdictions: efficiency enhancing or distortion inducing?

    Wallace E. Oates;Robert M. Schwab

  • Toward A Second-Generation Theory of Fiscal Federalism

    Wallace E. Oates

  • Measuring Peer Group Effects: A Study of Teenage Behavior

    William N. Evans;Wallace E. Oates;Robert M. Schwab

  • Searching for Leviathan: An Empirical Study.

    Wallace E Oates

  • Economics, environmental policy, and the quality of life

    William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates

  • FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

    Wallace E. Oates

  • Assistance to the poor in a federal system

    Charles C. Brown;Wallace E. Oates

  • THE RISING COST OF LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES: SOME EVIDENCE AND REFLECTIONS

    D. F. Bradford;R. A. Malt;W. E. Oates

  • Decentralization in the Public Sector: An Empirical Study of State and Local Government

    John Joseph Wallis;Wallace E Oates

  • The Political Economy of Environmental Policy

    Wallace E. Oates;Paul R. Portney

  • The Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism

    Robert L. Bish;Wallace E. Oates

  • The Analysis of Revenue Sharing in a New Approach to Collective Fiscal Decisions

    David F. Bradford;Wallace E. Oates

  • On marketable air-pollution permits: The case for a system of pollution offsets

    Alan J Krupnick;Wallace E Oates;Eric Van De Verg

  • On The Evolution of Fiscal Federalism: Theory and Institutions

    Wallace E. Oates

  • The theory of environmental policy: Relevance and the theory of externalities

    William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Baumol
William J. Baumol New York University
Robert N. Stavins
Robert N. Stavins Harvard University
Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper University of Maryland, College Park
James N. Sanchirico
James N. Sanchirico University of California, Davis
David F. Bradford
David F. Bradford Princeton University
Richard J. Zeckhauser
Richard J. Zeckhauser Harvard University
Michael J. Boskin
Michael J. Boskin Stanford University
V. Kerry Smith
V. Kerry Smith Arizona State University
Harvey S. Rosen
Harvey S. Rosen Princeton University
W. Kip Viscusi
W. Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University

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