June 5th 2009

The department of Economics and Business of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra has organized several celebrations on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Andreu Mas-Colell, professor of the department and president of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. There were three independent events.The first event in his honor was the “Andreu Mas-Colell Conference” that took place on 4 of June at the Auditorium of La Pedrera-Caixa Catalunya. There were six presentations about economic theory by colleagues and coauthors. Next day began the XVIII European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory, organized by the department of Economics and Business; it took place at the UPF from June 5 to 7.These two events were sponsored by: the department of Economics and Business of the UPF, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Obra Social de Caixa Catalunya, Banc de Sabadell, Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca, Generalitat de Catalunya, The Office of the Rector of the UPF, IDEC (UPF), Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the UPF and Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC-UAB).On Friday 5 of June, at the Auditorium of Campus de la Ciutadella, the rector of the UPF, Josep Joan Moreso awarded the “Guardó d’Honor de la UPF”, the maximum distinction of the UPF, to Andreu Mas-Colell, as an acknowledgement of his long academic and researcher career and for his institutional commitment with the UPF, the Catalan university system and the European research system.