Press Release
Research in Economics:
HEC welcomes Andreu MAS-COLELL
8th December 2005
HEC has recently awarded the title of HEC Professor Honoris Causa to Andreu
MAS-COLELL, Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Dr.
MAS-COLELL is former Minister of Education and Research for Catalonia, and one
of the world’s most recognized economists, renowned for his work in the field of the
Game and the General Balance Theories. Compelled to emigrate to the United
States because of the FRANCO regime, Andreu MAS-COLELL later obtained his
PhD from the University of Minnesota. He eventually became a professor of
Economics at Berkeley and at Harvard.
The award ceremony took place at HEC during a two day scientific conference
organized with researchers from Europe, the United States and Japan. Roger
GUESNERIE, Professor at the College of France, and himself a Honoris Causa
Professor at HEC, had the pleasure of welcoming Andreu MAS-COLELL.
In the past, HEC has awarded the title of Professor Honoris Causa in Economics to
Professor Edmond MALINVAUD, as well as to Robert C. MERTON, who shortly
thereafter obtained the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Designating Professor Andreu MAS-COLELL as a member of HEC’s Honoris Causa
faculty, within which he intends to play an active role, illustrates the school’s great
interest in teaching and research in the field of Economics. It also honours HEC’s
Department of Finance and Economics which, with its 21 professor-researchers
publishing regularly in the best international journals, continues to work closely with
other institutions, such as ESADE in Barcelona, in the development of Economics
research.
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