Victor Ginsburgh


Victor Alexandre Ginsburgh is a Belgian economist of Austrian origin.

Biography

Victor Ginsburgh studied at the Free University of Brussels and mastered in econometrics. He earned an economics PhD in 1972. He has been an Economics professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles since 1975; . He is also member of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université catholique de Louvain.
He wrote and edited a dozen books and is the author or coauthor of over 180 papers on topics in applied and theoretical economics, including industrial organization and general equilibrium analysis. His more recent interests go to the economics of languages, as well as to art history and art philosophy, two fields in which he tries to put to use his knowledge of economics. He has published over 50 papers on these topics, some of which appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Economic Perspectives and the European Economic Review.
He is also one of the editors of the Journal of Wine Economics published by the American Association of Wine Economists.

Selected bibliography

Books