Victor Ginsburgh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1093646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Ginsburgh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginsburgh |
| SIGNATURE | GINSBURGH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6078-3957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language
A Lingua Franca for Kurdish Populations
Questioning the NFT “Revolution” within the Art Ecosystem
Three years after the sensational debut of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the art scene, it seems timely to reflect on their presumed revolutionary attributes. The speculative fascination at the beginning has gradually given way to mixed outcomes, with hardly predictable future directions. However, once recontextualized in the art ecosystem and its value chain, one may question the ability of NFT technology to lead to radical changes. Our main arg…
The Eurovision Song Contest: Voting rules, biases and rationality
We analyze and evaluate the rules and results at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. We first concentrate on the various voting procedures and explore several alternatives (inspired by classical contributions in social choice and game theory) that could make a difference for the results. We also discuss other important issues, such as simplicity, contrast effects and whether experts are better judges than tele-voters. Our findings raise the questio…
Approval voting and Shapley ranking
One hundred years of solitude: Bestsellers in the United States, 1900-1999
Internalizing production costs and changes of tastes: More recent theatre plays feature fewer roles
This paper shows that the number of roles in theatre plays has decreased over time. Playwrights seem to internalize the costs of producing plays by downsizing the number of roles. This downsizing is not a recent phenomenon: it already started a long time ago. This is not surprising, since production costs increase over time and the Baumol cost disease is obviously one of the reasons, though one cannot exclude that fashion has changed given the ti…
Enhancing Participation in the Arts in the EU: Challenges and Methods
The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language
Do the languages people speak influence their economic decisions and social behavior in multilingual societies? This Handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine the links and
Foreign Language Learning and Trade
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning: world population of speakers of home language, trade with speakers of foreign language, linguistic distance between home and foreign language and literacy. Trade may well deserve more emphasis than the other three factors, not only for its …
Institutional design for the Brussels area and values for the Belgian community” by Henry Tulkens, comments of Victor Ginsburgh
How to find a way out of Belgium’s linguistic stalemate? How to guarantee the respect of democratic principles in the use of languages?These two questions, especially crucial to Brussels and its surrounding area, are at the heart of the latest paper that Henry Tulkens, professor emeritus of political economy and public finances at UCL (Université catholique de Louvain), has published in Brussels Studies (“Double vision” collection).According to P…
Institutions pour Bruxelles et valeurs chères à la communauté belge” par Henry Tulkens et réponse de Victor Ginsburgh
Comment nous sortir de l’impasse des crispations linguistiques ? Comment garantir le respect des principes démocratiques en matière d’emploi des langues ?Ce sont ces deux questions qui concernent au premier plan Bruxelles et sa périphérie qu’aborde ici Henry Tulkens, professeur émérite à l’Université catholique de Louvain.Selon lui, une détermination de l’emploi des langues au niveau local, un abandon pur et simple du principe de droit du sol et …
Instellingen voor Brussel en waarden van de Belgische samenleving” van Henry Tulkens, opmerkingen van Victor Ginsburgh
Hoe kan België uit de impasse van de communautaire spanningen geraken? Hoe kan men garanderen dat de democratische principes inzake het gebruik van de talen geëerbiedigd worden?Deze twee kwesties, die in de eerste plaats betrekking hebben op Brussel en zijn rand, worden behandeld door Henry Tulkens, emeritus hoogleraar politieke economie en openbare financiën aan de Université catholique de Louvain, in de laatste aflevering van Brussels Studies (…
Colonial legacy, polarization and linguistic disenfranchisement: The case of the Sri Lankan War
Art and Culture, Economics of
Evaluating Excellence in the Arts
Beyond Price: Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts
Où il est question d'Italo Calvino, de tulipes, de mariages et de quelques autres
L’auteur montre que ce ne sont ni Maurice Allais [1947], ni Paul Samuelson [1958], qui ont « inventé » le modèle à générations imbriquées, mais bien l’écrivain italien Italo Calvino. Dans un conte écrit en 1944, tout était en place et bien plus, puisque non seulement Calvino montre qu’il existait un équilibre, mais aussi que cet équilibre pouvait être perturbé par une nouvelle génération qui n’adhérait pas au comportement malhonnête des génératio…
Returns to Foreign Languages of Native Workers in the European Union
Most of the literature on returns to languages is concerned with immigrants. The authors' study, which uses the European Community Household Panel Survey for the period 1994–2001, infers returns to non-native languages by native workers in nine countries of the European Union. The study differs from other studies that deal with the same issue in three respects. First, instead of using a dummy for each language, they use the ratio of the populatio…
The economics of literary translation: Some theory and evidence
Can public arts education replace arts subsidization
Natural Endowments, Production Technologies and the Quality of Wines in Bordeaux. Does Terroir Matter
We study whether quality assessments made by wine experts and by consumers (based on prices obtained at auction between 1980 and 1992) can be explained by variables describing endowments (land characteristics, exposures of vineyards) and technologies (from grape varieties and picking, to bottled wines). However, since technological choices are likely to depend on endowments, the effects can only be identified using an instrumental variables appro…
De la narration à la consécration: L’exemple de la peinture flamande de Van Eyck à Rubens
Nous nous proposons d’illustrer comment s’est forme au fil du temps le « pantheon » actuel des grands representants de la peinture flamande de Van Eyck a Rubens. Pour explorer ce processus dynamique, nous suivons a travers quatre siecles (de 1604 a 1996) les ecrits d’un corpus d’historiens qui ont jete un regard a vocation exhaustive sur la peinture de cette epoque. Nous montrons que plus de la moitie des artistes classes parmi les premiers aujou…
Handbook of the economics of art and culture
Persistence and fashion in art Italian Renaissance from Vasari to Berenson and beyond
Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts
The role of experts is dramatically increasing in our societies, where sorting information about quality is becoming more and more difficult. This paper looks at expertise in the arts (movies, novels and musical interpretation) and shows that expert opinion given shortly after the work has been produced (Oscars, prizes, rankings in musical competitions) may influence success, though it does not always recognize talent and does often not survive t…
Natural Endowments, Production Technologies and the Quality of Wines in Bordeaux. Does Terroir Matter
We study whether quality assessments made by wine experts and by consumers (based on prices obtained at auction between 1980 and 1992) can be explained by variables describing endowments (land characteristics, exposures of vineyards) and technologies (from grape varieties and picking, to bottled wines). However, since technological choices are likely to depend on endowments, the effects can only be identified using an instrumental variables appro…
Language Disenfranchisement in the European Union
This article introduces the notion of language disenfranchisement which arises if the number of EU working languages is reduced and some EU citizens are denied the use of their own language for official purposes. We use data on language proficiency in the EU and show that, in spite of the widespread knowledge of English, the retention of French and German as working languages is essential to avoid a high degree of disenfranchisement of EU citizen…
Returns to Foreign Languages of Native Workers in the European Union
Most of the literature on returns to languages is concerned with immigrants. The authors' study, which uses the European Community Household Panel Survey for the period 1994–2001, infers returns to non-native languages by native workers in nine countries of the European Union. The study differs from other studies that deal with the same issue in three respects. First, instead of using a dummy for each language, they use the ratio of the populatio…
The economics of literary translation: Some theory and evidence
Persistence and fashion in art Italian Renaissance from Vasari to Berenson and beyond
Random timing of elections and the political business cycle
Approval voting and Shapley ranking
Absentee Bidders and the Declining Price Anomaly in Wine Auctions
The anomaly is concerned with the observation that in multiple-item auctions of identical objects, prices tend to decline over time. I show that in the case of wine auctions, which have been analyzed frequently, the anomaly is likely to be caused by the fact that most bids are entered by absentees, who use nonoptimal bidding strategies. Therefore, wine auctions can hardly be used to illustrate the standard multiple-object auction model
One hundred years of solitude: Bestsellers in the United States, 1900-1999
Colonial legacy, polarization and linguistic disenfranchisement: The case of the Sri Lankan War
Local Government Expenditures in Belgium: Do Political Distinctions Matter
The purpose of this paper is to test whether public spending by local communities in Belgium is influenced by local politics. Unlike previous studies which are briefly surveyed, we test alternative models of the local budgetary decision, and systematically favour the one which includes political variables. In spite of this deliberate bias, political factors influence neither the level nor the structure of local public spending in Belgium. This ma…
Local Government Expenditures in Belgium: Do Political Distinctions Matter
The purpose of this paper is to test whether public spending by local communities in Belgium is influenced by local politics. Unlike previous studies which are briefly surveyed, we test alternative models of the local budgetary decision, and systematically favour the one which includes political variables. In spite of this deliberate bias, political factors influence neither the level nor the structure of local public spending in Belgium. This ma…
Random timing of elections and the political business cycle
The relevance of hedonic price indices: The Case of Paintings
Optimal policy business cycles
Absentee Bidders and the Declining Price Anomaly in Wine Auctions
The anomaly is concerned with the observation that in multiple-item auctions of identical objects, prices tend to decline over time. I show that in the case of wine auctions, which have been analyzed frequently, the anomaly is likely to be caused by the fact that most bids are entered by absentees, who use nonoptimal bidding strategies. Therefore, wine auctions can hardly be used to illustrate the standard multiple-object auction model
Sharing the Income of a Museum Pass Program
Museum passes which give visitors access to several museums, are becoming more and more frequent. One of the problems encountered is the sharing of the proceeds. We recommend a fair and easily implementable sharing rule that takes into account the relative contribution of each individual museum to the joint pass program. This rule is based on theoretical arguments drawn from the field of game theory. We also show that other commonly used rules ma…
Is There a Market for Copies?
Additional informationNotes on contributorsVictor GinsburghFrançoise Benhamou teaches at the Université de Rouen and is a faculty member of Matisse, Université de Paris I. Victor Ginsburgh teaches at Université de Bruxelles and Université catholique de Louvain.
Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts
The role of experts is dramatically increasing in our societies, where sorting information about quality is becoming more and more difficult. This paper looks at expertise in the arts (movies, novels and musical interpretation) and shows that expert opinion given shortly after the work has been produced (Oscars, prizes, rankings in musical competitions) may influence success, though it does not always recognize talent and does often not survive t…
Economics of art and culture: Invited papers at the 12th international conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International
Language Disenfranchisement in the European Union
This article introduces the notion of language disenfranchisement which arises if the number of EU working languages is reduced and some EU citizens are denied the use of their own language for official purposes. We use data on language proficiency in the EU and show that, in spite of the widespread knowledge of English, the retention of French and German as working languages is essential to avoid a high degree of disenfranchisement of EU citizen…
Handbook of the economics of art and culture
Persistence and fashion in art Italian Renaissance from Vasari to Berenson and beyond
Can public arts education replace arts subsidization
Natural Endowments, Production Technologies and the Quality of Wines in Bordeaux. Does Terroir Matter
We study whether quality assessments made by wine experts and by consumers (based on prices obtained at auction between 1980 and 1992) can be explained by variables describing endowments (land characteristics, exposures of vineyards) and technologies (from grape varieties and picking, to bottled wines). However, since technological choices are likely to depend on endowments, the effects can only be identified using an instrumental variables appro…
De la narration à la consécration: L’exemple de la peinture flamande de Van Eyck à Rubens
Nous nous proposons d’illustrer comment s’est forme au fil du temps le « pantheon » actuel des grands representants de la peinture flamande de Van Eyck a Rubens. Pour explorer ce processus dynamique, nous suivons a travers quatre siecles (de 1604 a 1996) les ecrits d’un corpus d’historiens qui ont jete un regard a vocation exhaustive sur la peinture de cette epoque. Nous montrons que plus de la moitie des artistes classes parmi les premiers aujou…
Où il est question d'Italo Calvino, de tulipes, de mariages et de quelques autres
L’auteur montre que ce ne sont ni Maurice Allais [1947], ni Paul Samuelson [1958], qui ont « inventé » le modèle à générations imbriquées, mais bien l’écrivain italien Italo Calvino. Dans un conte écrit en 1944, tout était en place et bien plus, puisque non seulement Calvino montre qu’il existait un équilibre, mais aussi que cet équilibre pouvait être perturbé par une nouvelle génération qui n’adhérait pas au comportement malhonnête des génératio…
Returns to Foreign Languages of Native Workers in the European Union
Most of the literature on returns to languages is concerned with immigrants. The authors' study, which uses the European Community Household Panel Survey for the period 1994–2001, infers returns to non-native languages by native workers in nine countries of the European Union. The study differs from other studies that deal with the same issue in three respects. First, instead of using a dummy for each language, they use the ratio of the populatio…
The economics of literary translation: Some theory and evidence
Beyond Price: Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts
Evaluating Excellence in the Arts
Art and Culture, Economics of
The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language
Do the languages people speak influence their economic decisions and social behavior in multilingual societies? This Handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine the links and
Foreign Language Learning and Trade
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning: world population of speakers of home language, trade with speakers of foreign language, linguistic distance between home and foreign language and literacy. Trade may well deserve more emphasis than the other three factors, not only for its …
Institutional design for the Brussels area and values for the Belgian community” by Henry Tulkens, comments of Victor Ginsburgh
How to find a way out of Belgium’s linguistic stalemate? How to guarantee the respect of democratic principles in the use of languages?These two questions, especially crucial to Brussels and its surrounding area, are at the heart of the latest paper that Henry Tulkens, professor emeritus of political economy and public finances at UCL (Université catholique de Louvain), has published in Brussels Studies (“Double vision” collection).According to P…
Institutions pour Bruxelles et valeurs chères à la communauté belge” par Henry Tulkens et réponse de Victor Ginsburgh
Comment nous sortir de l’impasse des crispations linguistiques ? Comment garantir le respect des principes démocratiques en matière d’emploi des langues ?Ce sont ces deux questions qui concernent au premier plan Bruxelles et sa périphérie qu’aborde ici Henry Tulkens, professeur émérite à l’Université catholique de Louvain.Selon lui, une détermination de l’emploi des langues au niveau local, un abandon pur et simple du principe de droit du sol et …
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