Victor Ginsburgh

Victor Alexandre Ginsburgh (born 1939 in Rwanda) is a Belgian economist of Austrian origin.

Ginsburgh studied at the Solvay Business School at the Université libre de Bruxelles and mastered in econometrics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics, 1972. He is professor at Université libre de Bruxelles since 1975. He has been visiting professor in several US universities (Yale, University of Virginia, Chicago University), as well as in France (Paris and Marseille), and in Belgium (Louvain and Liège).

Very active as a researcher, Ginsburgh wrote several books of reference and more than 130 scientific articles published in reviews such as Econometrica and the American Economic Review. His research areas are general equilibrium, microeconomic theory and cultural economics in which he is recognized as a world authority.

Selected bibliography

• The Economics of Legal Disputes Over The Ownership of Works of Art and Other Collectibles, in Essays in the Economics of the Arts, V. A. Ginsburgh & P.-M. Menger, eds. (Elsevier Science, 1996).
• The Structure of Applied General Equilibrium Models, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997 (with Michiel Keyzer).
• Absentee bidders and the declining price anomaly in wine auctions, Journal of Political Economy 106 (1998), 1302-1322.
• Expert Opinion and Compensation: Evidence from a Musical Competition, American Economic Review 93 (2003), 289-296 (with Jan van Ours).
• Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, North-Holland (2006), V. A. Ginsburgh & David Throsby, eds, ISBN 978-0444508706

External links

• Page at ULB

• Language disenfranchisement in the European Union (pdf)

• Expert Opinion and Compensation: Evidence from a Musical Competition in American Economic Review (pdf)