Victor Ginsburgh
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| Victor Ginsburgh | |
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| Affiliation: | ECARES / ULB |
| Email: | vginsbur@ulb.ac.be |
| Phone: | +32 2 650 38 46 |
| Homepage: | www.ulb.ac.be/rech/inventaire/chercheurs/4/CH124.html |
Victor Alexandre Ginsburgh (born 1939 in Rwanda) is a Belgian economist of Austrian origin.
Ginsburgh studied at the Solvay Business School at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 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.
