Victor Ginsburgh

Victor Alexandre Ginsburgh (born 1939 in Rwanda-Urundi) is a Belgian economist.

Not to be confused with Viktor Ginzburg, Victor Ginzburg, or Victor Ginzburg (director).

Biography

Ginsburgh was born in 1939 into an expatriate family: "My father was only a white Russian, and my mother an Austrian Jew".[1]

Victor Ginsburgh studied at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and mastered in econometrics. He earned an economics PhD in 1972. He has been an Economics professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles since 1975.

Ginsburgh is the author or coauthor of papers on topics in applied and theoretical economics, including industrial organization and general equilibrium analysis.

Political views

He is known in Belgium for his criticism towards Israel politics which he has expressed in numerous articles.[2]

Selected bibliography

Books
  • How Many Languages Do We Need? The Economics of Linguistic Diversity, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, viii + 232p. (with S. Weber).
  • The Structure of Applied General Equilibrium Models, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997 and 2002 for the paperback edition (with M. Keyzer).
  • Activity Analysis and General Equilibrium Modelling, Amsterdam: North- Holland, 1981, 370p. (with J. Waelbroeck).
  • La République Populaire de Chine. Cadres Institutionnels et Réalisations: La Planification et la Croissance Economique 1949-1959, Bruxelles: Editions de l'Institut de Sociologie, 1963, 188p.

Edited books
  • The Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, vol. 2, Amsterdam: Elsevier, in preparation (with D. Throsby).
  • The Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, vol. 1, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006, xxxv + 1321 p. (with D. Throsby).

Selected papers
  • Rock and Roll Bands, (In)complete Contracts and Creativity, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 101 (2011), 217-221 (with C. Ceulemans and P. Legros).
  • Endowments, production technologies and the quality of wines in Bordeaux. Does terroir matter?, The Economic Journal 118 (2008), F142-F157 (with O. Gergaud).
  • Disenfranchisement in linguistically diverse societies. The case of the European Union, Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005), 946-964 (with I. Ortuno-Ortin and S. Weber).
  • Awards, success and aesthetic quality in the arts, Journal of Economic Perspectives 17 (2003), 99-111.
  • The museum pass game and its value, Games and Economic Behavior 43 (2003), 322-325 (with I. Zang).
  • Expert opinion and compensation: evidence from a musical competition, American Economic Review 93 (2003), 289-298 (with J. van Ours).
  • On invisible trade relations between Mesopotamian cities during the third millennium B.C., The Professional Geographer 53 (2001), 374-383 (with A. Bossuyt and L. Broze).
  • Absentee bidders and the declining price anomaly in wine auctions, Journal of Political Economy 106 (1998), 1302–1322.

References
  1. https://www.levif.be/actualite/belgique/ken-loach-ils-n-ont-pas-ose-mais-ceci-n-est-qu-un-debut/article-opinion-835513.html
  2. https://www.cclj.be/actu/violence-et-haine-soi
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