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Overview

Aidan R. Vining is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with contributions also in Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting. Vining's scholarly work touches on subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Strategy and Management, Gender Studies, and Genetics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Public-Private Partnership Projects
  • Public Procurement and Policy
  • Legal and Constitutional Studies
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Vining has published in several academic journals, including:

  • Policy Sciences
  • Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
  • International Journal of Public Sector Management
  • Journal of Infrastructure Development

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Vining include:

  • "Listed public-private enterprises: stock market information, agency costs and productive efficiency outcomes" (2021), International Journal of Public Sector Management
  • "Multijurisdictional and Multimodal Infrastructure Corridors: Supranational Social Value, Assembly and Implementation Barriers" (2023), Journal of Infrastructure Development
  • "PPP performance evaluation: the social welfare goal, principal-agent theory and political economy" (2023), Policy Sciences
  • "Efficiency without Apology: Consideration of the Marginal Excess Tax Burden and Distributional Impacts in Benefit-Cost Analysis" (2020), Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • "Standing in Cost-Benefit Analysis: Where, Who, What (Counts)?" (2022), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Frequent co-authors in Vining's research collaborations include:

  • David L. Weimer
  • Anthony E. Boardman
  • Mark A. Moore
  • David H. Greenberg
  • Claude Laurin

Vining has published a book titled Dog Economics with Cambridge University Press in 2024, which contributes to the field of human-animal interaction studies.

Best Publications

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice

    Anthony E. Boardman;David H. Greenberg;Aidan R. Vining;David L. Weimer

  • Policy analysis : concepts and practice

    David Leo Weimer;Aidan R. Vining

  • Ownership and Performance in Competitive Environments: A Comparison of the Performance of Private, Mixed, and State-Owned Enterprises

    Anthony E. Boardman;Aidan R. Vining

  • Ownership versus competition: Efficiency in public enterprise*

    Aidan R. Vining;Anthony E. Boardman

  • A conceptual framework for understanding the outsourcing decision

    Aidan Vining;steven Globerman

  • “Just give me a number!” Practical values for the social discount rate

    Mark A. Moore;Anthony E. Boardman;Aidan R. Vining;David L. Weimer

  • A Framework for Evaluating the Government Contracting-Out Decision with an Application to Information Technology

    Steven Globerman;Aidan R. Vining

  • Public‐private partnerships in Canada: Theory and evidence

    Aidan R. Vining;Anthony E. Boardman

  • The role of clustering in the growth of new technology-based firms

    Elicia M. Maine;Daniel M. Shapiro;Aidan R. Vining

  • Public—Private Partnerships: Eight Rules for Governments

    Aidan R. Vining;Anthony E. Boardman

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice, 3rd Edition

    Anthony E Boardman;David H Greenberg;Aidan R Vining;David L Weimer

  • Government Supply and Government Production Failure: A Framework Based on Contestability

    Aidan R. Vining;David L. Weimer

  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC‐PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND ANALYSIS OF THEIR SOCIAL VALUE*

    Anthony E. Boardman;Aidan R. Vining

  • “Choice of Organizational Form Makes a Real Difference”: The Impact of Corporatization on Government Agencies in Canada

    Nancy Bilodeau;Claude Laurin;Aidan Vining

  • Proposal for a future delivery market for transplant organs.

    Richard Schwindt;Aidan R. Vining

  • More appropriate discounting: the rate of social time preference and the value of the social discount rate

    Mark A. Moore;Anthony E. Boardman;Aidan R. Vining

  • Public–private partnerships in the US and Canada: “There are no free lunches”1

    Aidan R. Vining;Anthony E. Boardman;Finn Poschmann

  • ELEMENTS OF A THEORY OF MIXED ENTERPRISE

    Catherine C. Eckel;Aidan R. Vining

  • An Assessment of Important Issues Concerning the Application of Benefit-Cost Analysis to Social Policy

    Aidan R. Vining;David L. Weimer

  • The role of agency costs in explaining the superior performance of foreign MNE subsidiaries

    Anthony E. Boardman;Daniel M. Shapiro;Aidan R. Vining

  • Building the firm's political (lobbying) strategy

    Aidan R. Vining;Daniel M. Shapiro;Bernhard Borges

  • Privatization in Canada: Operating and Stock Price Performance with International Comparisons

    Anthony E. Boardman;Claude Laurin;Aidan R. Vining

  • North American infrastructure P3s: examples and lessons learned

    Anthony E. Boardman;Finn Poschmann;Aidan R. Vining

  • Assessing the Economic Worth of Public-Private Partnerships

    Anthony E Boardman;Aidan R Vining

  • Public Agency External Analysis Using a Modified “Five Forces” Framework

    Aidan R. Vining

  • Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice, 4th Edition

    David L Weimer;Aidan R Vining

  • The Economics of NonProfit Institutions, edited by Susan Rose‐Ackerman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, 423pp. Price: $39.95 cloth

    Aidan R. Vining

  • An assessment of important issues concerning the application of benefit–cost analysis to social policy

    Aidan Vining;David L. Weimer

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Weimer
David L. Weimer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Catherine C. Eckel
Catherine C. Eckel Texas A&M University

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