Glenn Jenkins is the director of the John Deutsch International Program on Investment Appraisal and Risk Analysis (PIAR). Prior to his appointment at Queen's University, he taught at Harvard University from 1972-2000, where he continues to be an Institute Fellow Emeritus. In 1985, Mr. Jenkins founded the Program on Investment Appraisal and Management at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and served as its Director until 2000. He was also the Director of the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School from 1989 to 1998.
His main fields of research are public finance, investment appraisal, and economic development. From 1981 to 1984, while on leave from Harvard, he served as the Assistant Deputy Minister of Tax Policy and Legislation in the Department of Finance for the Government of Canada. Mr. Jenkins has also served as an economic consultant to numerous governments and international financial institutions. These include the governments of Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Canada, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Uganda, United States and Zimbabwe as well as institutions such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and the Ford Foundation.
He earned his first degree, a B.Comm. in Economics, from Carleton University in Ottawa. He later completed an M.A. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, followed by an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Seasonal Hydropower Storage Dams: Are They Cost-Effective in Providing Reliability for Solar PV? (with Ashitey, J.N.A.; Radmehr, M.; Miklyaev, M.) Sustainability 17(9), 4076 (2025).
Evaluation of the Economic Welfare Gains from Reducing Trade Administration Costs in Mercosur (with Mehmet, N.) Journal of Applied Economics (2024).
How Do Household Coping Strategies Evolve with Increased Food Insecurity? An Examination of Nigeria’s Food Price Shock of 2015–2018 (with Quinton, J.; Olasehinde-Williams, G.) Food and Energy Security 13:e70012 (2024).
Feed-In Tariffs: A Retrospective Stakeholder Analysis (with Hashemi, M.; Milne, F.) Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 15(2):276–301 (2024).
Digital Transformation of Tax Administration and Compliance: A Systematic Literature Review on E-Invoicing and Prefilled Returns (with Hesami, S.; Jenkins, H.) Digital Government: Research and Practice (2024).
Rooftop Solar with Net Metering: An Integrated Investment Appraisal (with Hashemi, M.; Milne, F.) Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 188:113803 (2023).
Excise Tax Incidence: The Inequity of Taxing Obesity and Beauty (with Alshamleh, O.; Ekici, T.) Applied Economics (2023).
A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand Principle in World Bank-Financed Hydropower Projects (with Olasehinde-Williams, G.) Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 17(1):45–67 (2023).
Financial, Economic, and Environmental Analyses of Upgrading Reverse Osmosis Plant Fed with Treated Wastewater (with Nazari Chamaki, F.; Hashemipour, M.) Energies 16(5):3292 (2023).
Traceability, Value, and Trust in the Coffee Market: A Natural Experiment in Ethiopia (with Mbakop, L.; Leung, L.; Sertoglu, K.) Agriculture 13(3):368 (2023).
Wastewater Reuse to Mitigate the Risk of Water Shortages: An Integrated Investment Appraisal (with Nazari Chamaki, F.; Jenkins, H.; Hashemipour, M.) Water 14(22):3859 (2022).
Private Benefits, Fiscal Costs, and Economic Resource Costs of the Private Defined Contribution Pension Systems in Turkey (with Olasehinde-Williams, G.; Amel, R.) Turkish Studies (2022).
Can Privatization of Distribution Substations Improve Electricity Reliability for Firms? An Application to Nepal (with Hashemi, M.) Utilities Policy 76:101148 (2022).
Is There a Net Economic Loss from Employing Reference Class Forecasting in the Appraisal of Hydropower Projects? (with Olasehinde-Williams, G.; Baurzhan, S.) Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 162:111445 (2022).
A Stakeholder Analysis of Investments in Wind Power Electricity Generation in Ontario (with Bahramian, P.; Milne, F.) Energy Economics 100:105442 (September 2021).
Progressive Taxation versus Progressive Targeted Transfers in the Design of a Sustainable Value Added Tax System (with Abshari, Z.; Jenkins, G.P.; Kuo, C.-Y.; Shahee, M.) Sustainability 13(1):48 (2021).
FDI, Tourism, and Accelerating the Rate of Economic Growth in Spain (with Sokhanvar, A.) Journal of International Trade & Economic Development (October 2021).
Estimation of the Potential Economic Welfare Gains to SACU from Trade Facilitation (with Safaeimanesh, S.) South African Journal for Economics and Management Science (August 2021).
The Economic Performance of Hydropower Dams Supported by the World Bank Group, 1975–2015 (with Baurzhan, S.; Olasehinde-Williams, G.) Energies 14(12):3851 (2021).
Impact of Foreign Direct Investment and International Tourism on Long-Run Economic Growth of Estonia (with Sokhanvar, A.) Journal of Economic Studies (2021).
Income Inequality and the Cost of Recessions (with Shahee, M.) Acta Oeconomica 71(2):147–168 (2021).
The Displacement Impacts of Wind Power Electricity Generation: Costly Lessons from Ontario (with Bahramian, P.; Milne, F.) Energy Policy 147:111545 (February 2021).
Sustainability of Agricultural Crop Policies in Rwanda: An Integrated Cost-Benefit Analysis (with Miklyaev, M.; Shohowale, D.) Sustainability 13(1):48 (2021).
Averting Expenditures and Willingness to Pay for Electricity Supply Reliability (with Niroomand, N.) Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 11(4):515–537 (December 2020).
Estimation of the Rate of Return to Capital in the East African Community (EAC) Countries (with Othman, A.) Applied Economics (January 2020).
Estimation of Households’ and Businesses’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Reliability of Electricity Supply (with Niroomand, N.) Energy for Sustainable Development 55:201–209 (2020).
Cost Benefit Analysis for Investment Decisions (with Kuo, C.Y.; Harberger, A.C.) Kindle Direct Publishing (2019).
Family Decision Making for Educational Expenditure: New Evidence from Survey Data for Nigeria (with Anyabolu, H.; Bahramian, P.) Applied Economics 51(22):2378–2392 (November 2019).
The Value of Online Banking to Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from Firms Operating in the UAE Free Trade Zones (with Shahnoori, P.) Applied Economics 51(10):1048–1063 (2019).
Valuation of the Quality Attributes of Online Banking Services by Small and Medium Enterprises Engaged in International Trade (with Shahnoori, P.) South African Journal of Economics 87(1):137–158 (2019).
Evaluating the Cost to Industry of Electricity Outages (with Hashemi, M.; Jyoti, R.; Ozbafli, A.) Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy (2018).
A Comparison of Stated Preference Methods for the Valuation of Improvement in Road Safety (with Niroomand, N.) Economic Analysis and Policy 59:138–149 (2018).
The Pension Traps of North Cyprus (with Altiok, H.U.) Turkish Studies 19(3):233–252 (2018).
Social Impact Bonds: Implementation, Evaluation, and Monitoring (with Nazari Chamaki, F.; Hashemi, M.) International Journal of Public Administration 41(12):969–985 (2018).
An Economic Analysis for the Design of IPP Contracts for Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Projects (with Salci, S.) Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 81(2):1891–1902 (January 2018).
Taxing Mobile Capital in Free Trade Zones to the Detriment of Workers (with Kuo, C.-Y.; Chun-Yan, K.) Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics 24(4):415–432 (October 2017).
Estimating the Value of Life and Injury for Pedestrians Using a Stated Preference Framework (with Niroomand, N.) Journal of Safety Research 62:85–94 (2017).
On-Grid Solar PV versus Diesel Electricity Generation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Economics and GHG Emissions (with Baurzhan, S.) Sustainability 9(2):280 (March 2017).