Herbert Glejser

Herbert Glejser was born on {{date|January 2, 1938}} in Vienna, Austria, from a Jewish family. The Anschluss on {{date|March 12, 1938}} forced his parents to flee from Austria and seek refuge in Belgium.{{cite news |last1=Lobet |first1=Marcel |date=March 26, 1955 |title=Un adolescent entr'ouvre ses 'cahiers de poésie': La rencontre à l'aube par Herbert Glejser |work=Le Soir}} The Glejser family obtained Belgian citizenship in 1955.

After his high school studies in Athénée royal de Bruxelles, Herbert Glejser started University at the age of 16, at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in the Social, Political and Economical Sciences Departement. Simultaneously, he enrolled in a degree in Business Engineering at the École de Commerce Solvay (now Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management). In 1958, aged 20, he received his BA in Commercial Engineering and in March 1963, then 25, completed his PhD in Economics.

In 1959, aged 21, Herbert Glejser was hired as Secretary and Research fellow at the Department in Applied Economics of ULB (DULBEA), the research centre of the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management and the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Assistant Professor at the ULB from 1963, Herbert Glejser became a full Professor in Economics in 1969, aged 31.

His interest focused in applied statistics and macroeconomics and, in 1981, he became one of the few Belgian economists to support the devaluation of the Belgian franc, despite the views of the National Bank of Belgium.Paul Hatry, sénateur, Annales du Sénat de Belgique, Séance du 2 mars 1982, {{p.|567}} https://www.senate.be/handann/S0016/S00163862/S00163862.pdf Glejser deemed this measure inevitable to save "this impossible monster the Belgian economy had become".{{cite journal |last1=Glejser |first1=Herbert |last2=Waelbroeck |first2=Jean |date=1982 |title=Du nouveau franc au renouveau économique: ébauche d'un programme |url=https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/12487/1/ber-0611.pdf |journal=Brussels Economic Review |issue=94 |pages=163–185 |access-date= |via=IDEAS}} The Belgian franc has later been devalued, in February 1982.

In Belgium, from 1969, Herbert Glejser taught in Brussels universities (ULB and VUB) and from 1974 at the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, in Namur. Abroad, he has been visiting Professor in the United States, notably at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1970 and 1974, at University of California, Berkeley in 1970, at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1991; in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980-1981; in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and in Brazil at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in 1996.

Council Member and Emeritus fellow of the European Economic Association from 1986 to 1990,{{cite web |title=Emeritus fellows |url=https://www.eeassoc.org/fellows |website=European Economic Association}} Glejser has been a Consultant for the European Economic Community from 1993.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

Herbert Glejser received the Fulbright Program scholarship in 1974, a visiting scholar grant in Harvard University for his project research on "Econometric analysis of American capital abroad".{{cite web | url=https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/herbert-glejser | title=Herbert Glejser | Fulbright Scholar Program }} He was awarded a Professor Chair from the Francqui Foundation in 1982-1983, and won the Pommerehne Prize from the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) in 2002 for his article Efficiency and inefficiency in the ranking in competitions: The case of the Queen Elisabeth Music Contest, co-written with economist Bruno Heyndels.{{cite news |title=Herbert Glejser: 'Elisabethwedstrijd verloopt niet eerlijk' |url=https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/herbert-glejser-elisabethwedstrijd-verloopt-niet-eerlijk~bc5a4299/ |work=De Morgen |date=5 October 2002}}

Herbert Glejser published A New Test for Heteroskedasticity in March 1969 in the Journal of the American Statistical AssociationGlejser, Herbert (1969), A New Test for Heteroskedasticity, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 64:325, 316-323, DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1969.10500976 where he develops a new test for heteroskedasticity, derived from the Park test that had been published by Rolla Edward Park in Econometrica in 1966Park, R. E. (1966). "Estimation with Heteroscedastic Error Terms". Econometrica. 34 (4): 888. JSTOR 1910108

Glejser measures his test against the Goldfeld–Quandt test (1965): "[T]he new test seems to compare favourably, except perhaps in the case of large samples."

In 1996, Leslie George Godfrey has shown that the Glejser test for heteroskedasticity was valid only under conditional symmetry, and suggested some modifications.{{cite journal |last1=Godfrey |first1=Leslie G. |title=Some results on the Glejser and Koenker tests for heteroskedasticit |journal=Journal of Econometrics |date=1996 |volume=72 |issue=1–2 |pages=275–299|doi=10.1016/0304-4076(94)01723-9 }} Improvements to the Glejser test have later been developed by Kyung So ImIm, Kyung So, (2000), Robustifying Glejser test of heteroskedasticity, Journal of Econometrics, 97, issue 1, 179-188 and by José António Machado and João Santos SilvaMachado, José António and Santos Silva, João, (2000), Glejser's test revisited, Journal of Econometrics, 97, issue 1, 189-202

In 2020, the Glejser test was used to test the Dunning-Kruger hypothesis.{{cite journal |last1=Gignac |first1=Gilles E. |last2=Zajenkowski |first2=Marcin |title=The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact: Valid approaches to testing the hypothesis with individual differences data |journal=Intelligence |date=2020 |volume=80 |doi=10.1016/j.intell.2020.101449 |s2cid=216410901 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289620300271}}

In 1969, Herbert Glejser and Jean Waelbroeck founded and became first editors of the European Economic Review (EER).{{cite journal |title=Une nouvelle revue économique européenne |journal=Économie et statistique |date=September 1969 |volume=4 |pages=71–72 |doi=10.3406/estat.1969.1826 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/estat_0336-1454_1969_num_4_1_1826}}

They remained sole editors from 1969 to 1986, while EER publishers changed from the International Association of Applied Economics (ASEPELT) to North-Holland, then Elsevier. Over this period of time, over 10'000 article pages were selected by ca. 2'000 peer reviewers. In 1986, Glejser and Waelbroeck were joined by Peter Neary and Agnar Sandmo as associated editors.{{cite journal |last1=Glejser |first1=Herbert |last2=Waelbroeck |first2=Jean |title=A few words to the readers |journal=European Economic Review |date=1986 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=1–3|doi=10.1016/0014-2921(86)90028-0 }} Jean Waelbroeck remained co-Editor-in-chief until 1991, Herbert Glejser for 25 years, until 1993.{{cite journal |last1=Eckstein |first1=Zvi |last2=Gal-Or |first2=Esther |last3=Gylfason |first3=Thorvaldur |last4=Pfann |first4=Gerard A. |last5=von Hagen |first5=Juergen |title=A tribute to the founders |journal=European Economic Review |date=2006 |volume=50 |issue=1|pages=v |doi=10.1016/j.euroecorev.2005.11.001 }}

• Glejser test
• European Economic Review

• 2012 The United States Is Edging towards a Comparative Advantage in Services(en) Glejser, Herbert, (2012), [https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/forum2-12-spotlight.pdf The United States Is Edging towards a Comparative Advantage in Services], CESifo Forum, 13 (2), 66-68, Munich, Germany
• 2002 The support of the euro in the fifteen EU countries - politics and economics(en) Glejser, Herbert, (2002), [https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/Forum102-rr2.pdf The support of the euro in the fifteen EU countries - politics and economics], CESifo Forum, 3 (1), 60-62, Munich, Germany
• 2000 Decreasing Returns to Scale for the Small Country due to Scarcity or Indivisibility - A Test on Sport(en) Glejser, Herbert, (2000), [https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo_wp294.pdf Decreasing Returns to Scale for the Small Country due to Scarcity or Indivisibility - A Test on Sport], No 294, CESifo Working Paper Series, Munich, Germany
• 1995 Estimativas dos efeitos no comércio da entrada de Portugal e Espanha na União Européia(pt) Glejser, Herbert, and Moro, Sueli, (1995), [https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/novaeconomia/article/download/2279/1220/7419 Estimativas dos efeitos no comércio da entrada de Portugal e Espanha na União Européia, Nova Economia], 5, issue 2, p. 119-136, Brasil
• 1982 Du nouveau franc au renouveau économique: ébauche d'un programme(fr) Glejser, Herbert and Waelbroeck, Jean, (1982), [https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/12487/1/ber-0611.pdf Du nouveau franc au renouveau économique: ébauche d'un programme], Brussels Economic Review, 94, issue, p. 163-185
• 1976 Quantitative studies of international economic relations{{cite book |last1=Glejser |first1=Herbert |title=Quantitative studies of international economic relations |date=1976 |publisher=North Holland; Elsevier |location=Amsterdam; New York; Oxford |isbn=0-7204-0427-4 |pages=281}}
• 1971 Higher inflation rates and international imbalances(en) Glejser, H., and Halberthal, I., (1971), [https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/12045/1/ber-0356.pdf Higher inflation rates and international imbalances], Brussels Economic Review, 50, 205-208
• 1969-1993 European Economic Review (Editor and author)
• 1968 An explanation of differences in trade-product ratios among countries(en) Glejser, Herbert, (1968), [https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/11717/1/ber-0163.pdf An explanation of differences in trade-product ratios among countries], Brussels Economic Review, 37, 47-58
• 1966 Controllo economico, gratuità e benessere(it) Glejser, Herbert, (1966), [https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/290368 Controllo economico, gratuità e benessere], Rivista internazionale di scienze economiche e commerciali, 13, 1162-1170
• 1965 Inflation, productivity, and relative prices - A statistical study(en) Glejser, Herbert, (1965), [https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/290369 Inflation, productivity, and relative prices - A statistical study], Harvard University Press, The review of economics and statistics, 1965, Vol.47 (1), 76-80
• 1959 Croissances industrielles comparées de l'Union Soviétique et des États-Unis(fr) Glejser, Herbert, (1959), [https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/11479/1/ber-0019.pdf Croissances industrielles comparées de l'Union Soviétique et des États-Unis], Brussels Economic Review, 3, 379-408
• 1954 La rencontre à l'aube{{Cite book |last=Glejser |first=Herbert |title=La Rencontre à l'aube |publisher=Éditions du Cercle d'études littéraires françaises (C.E.L.F.) |year=1954 |publication-place=Malines |oclc=468079732}}

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