"The Theory of Public Finance in a Federal System"

Wallace Oates

Canadian Journal of Economics (Feb., 1968), 1, pp. 37-54.

"The Rising Cost of Local Public Services: Some Evidence and Reflections"

With D. Bradford and R. Malt, National Tax Journal (June, 1969), 22, pp. 185-202; Reprinted in Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Economics, Econ-49; Reprinted in W. Patrick Beaton, ed., Municipal Needs, Services, and Financing (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1974), pp. 223-40.

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

Wallace Oates

Journal of Political Economy (Nov./Dec., 1969), 77, pp. 957-71; reprinted in A. Atkinson, ed., Modern Public Finance (Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1991), pp. 344-58.

"Towards a Predictive Theory of Intergovernmental Grants"

With D. Bradford, American Economic Review (May, 1971), 61, pp. 440-48; Reprinted in Spanish translation, "Hacia una teoria predictiva de las subvencciones intergubernamentales," in A. Gimenez, ed., Financiacion de las Autonomias (Madrid: H. Blume Ediciones, 1979), pp. 143.62; Reprinted in B. Grewal, R. Mathews, and G. Brennan, eds., The Economics of Federalism (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1980), pp. 321-333.

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

With D. Bradford, Quarterly Journal of Economics (Aug., 1971), 85, pp. 416-39; Reprinted in Spanish translation, "El analysis de la participacion impositiva en el marco de las decisiones fiscales colectivas," in A. Gimenez, ed., Financiacion de las Autonomias (Madrid: H. Blume Ediciones, 1979), pp. 163-88.

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

With W. Baumol, Swedish Journal of Economics (March, 1971), 73, pp. 42-54; Reprinted in P. Bohm and A. Kneese, eds., The Economics of the Environment: Papers from Four Nations (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972); Reprinted in Italian translation in P. Bohm and A. Kneese, eds., L'Economia Dell'Ambiente (Milano: Fra Angeli; editore, 1974), pp. 101-119; Reprinted in German translation in H. Siebert, ed., Umwelt und Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1979), pp. 169-88; Reprinted in German translation in H. Moller et al., eds., Umweltokonomik: Beitrage zur Theorie und Politik (Verlagsgruppe, Athenaum, 1982), pp. 254-66; reprinted in W. Oates, ed. The Economics of the Environment (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1992), pp. 161-73; Reprinted in Czech translation in P. Sauer and M. Livingston, eds., Ekonomic Zivotniho Prostredi a Ekologicka Politica (Praha, 1996), pp. 121-33; Reprinted in T. Tietenberg, ed., Environmental Instruments and Institutions (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

"Suburban Exploitation of Central Cities and Governmental Structure"

With D. Bradford, in H. Hochman and G. Peterson, eds., Redistribution Through Public Choice (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1974), pp. 43-90.

"On Local Finance and the Tiebout Model"

Wallace Oates

American Economic Review (May, 1981), 71, pp. 93-98.

"Searching for Leviathan: An Empirical Study"

Wallace Oates

American Economic Review (Sept. 1985), 75, pp. 748-57.

"Marketable Permits for the Prevention of Environmental Deterioration"

With A. McGartland, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (Sept. 1985), 12, pp. 207-228.

"Marketable Pollution Permits and Acid Rain Externalities: A Comment and Some Further Evidence"

With A. McGartland, Canadian Journal of Economics (Aug., 1985), 18, pp. 668-675.

"Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System"

With C. Brown, Journal of Public Economics (April 1987), 32, pp. 307-330.

"On the Nature and Measurement of Fiscal Illusion: A Survey"

Wallace Oates

In G. Brennan et al., eds., Taxation and Fiscal Federalism: Essays in Honour of Russell Mathews (Sydney: Australian National University Press, 1988), pp. 65-82.

"On the Measurement of Congestion in the Provision of Local Public Goods"

Wallace Oates

Journal of Urban Economics (July, 1988), 24, pp. 85-94.

"Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency-Enhancing or Distortion-Inducing?"

With R. Schwab, Journal of Public Economics (April, 1988), 35, pp. 333-354.

"The Net Benefits of Incentive-Based Regulation: A Case Study of Environmental Standard Setting"

With P. Portney and A. McGartland, American Economic Review (Dec., 1989), 79, pp. 1233-1242. Reprinted in T. Tietenberg, ed., Environmental Instruments and Institutions (Edward Elgar, 1999)

"Community Composition and the Provision of Local Public Goods: A Normative Analysis"

With R. Schwab, Journal of Public Economics (March, 1991), 44, pp. 217-237.

"Environmental Economics: A Survey"

With M. Cropper, Journal of Economic Literature (June, 1992) 30, pp. 675-740. Reprinted in R. Stavins, ed., Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, Fourth Edition (New York: Norton, 2000), pp. 50-130. Reprinted in M. Hoel, ed., Recent Developments in Environmental Economics (Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2004), pp. 3-68.

"Measuring Peer Group Effects: A Study of Teenage Behavior"

With W. Evans and R. Schwab, Journal of Political Economy (October, 1992) 100, pp. 966-991.

"On the Welfare Gains from Fiscal Decentralization"

Wallace Oates

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice (1997) 2-3, pp. 83-92.

"An Essay on Fiscal Federalism"

Wallace Oates

Journal of Economic Literature (Sept. 1999), 37, pp. 1120-1149. Reprinted in S. James, ed., Taxation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy, Vol. I (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 373-409. Reprinted in M. Baimbridge and P. Whyman, eds., Fiscal Federalism and European Economic Integration (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 13-47. Reprinted in P. Cheshire and G. Duranton, eds., Recent Developments in Urban and Regional Economics (Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2005).

"Policy Analysis in the Presence of Distorting Taxes"

With I. Parry, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (Fall 2000), 19, pp. 603-613; Reprinted in L. Goulder, ed., Environmental Policy Making in Economies with Prior Tax Distortions (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2002), pp. 3-13.

"From Research to Policy: The Case of Environmental Economics"

Wallace Oates

University of Illinois Law Review, No. 1, 2000, pp. 135-153. Reprinted in the International Journal of Urban Sciences, 4 (1), 2000, pp. 1-15. Reprinted in R. Stavins, ed., The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2004), pp. 514-532.

"A Reconsideration of Environmental Federalism"

Wallace Oates

In J. List and A. de Zeeuw, eds., Recent Advances in Environmental Economics (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2002), pp. 1-32.

"The Political Economy of Environmental Policy"

With P. Portney, in K.G. Maler and J. Vincent, eds., Handbook of Environmental Economics (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2003), pp. 325-354.

"What Should Local Governments Tax: Income or Property?"

With Robert M. Schwab, and A. Schwartz, ed., City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2004), pp. 7-29.

"Property Taxation and Local Public Spending: The Renter Effect"

Wallace Oates

Journal of Urban Economics (2005) 57, pp. 419-431.

"Toward a Second-Generation Theory of Fiscal Federalism"

Wallace Oates

International Tax and Public Finance (August 2005) 12, pp. 349-374.

"The Many Faces of the Tiebout Model"

Wallace Oates

In W. Fischel, ed., The Tiebout Model at Fifty: Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Insitutue of Land Policy, 2006), pp. 28-45.

"Decentralization in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and Lessons for Global Policy"

With J. Kruger, and W. Pizer

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 1. (Spring 2007)