History of the European Workshops on General Equilibrium Theory

The European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory (EWGET) has been held each year since 1991.
The first workshop was hosted by the University of Geneva. Other host universities were the European University Institute (1992), Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (1993, 1997), University of Copenhagen (1994, 1999), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1995, 1998), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2000), University of Maastricht (2001), National Technical University of Athens (2002), Universität Bielefeld (2003), University of Venice (2004), Universität Zurich (2005), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2006), University of Warwick (2007), University of Salerno (2008), and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2009). Similar workshops have been held in the United States (NSF-CEME-NBER General Equilibrium Conference), Asia (GETA), and Brazil (LATECO).

EWGET workshops are usually held on weekends - Friday through Sunday - and consist primarily of presentations of submitted papers on the subject of general equilibrium theory and related topics. Since 2003, the workshops feature invited plenary Lecture in Honor of Gerard Debreu presented by a distinguished scholar in the field of general equilibrium theory. Past speakers include Leonid Hurwicz, Werner Hildenbrand, Graciela Chichilnisky, David Cass, Andreu Mas-Colell, Roger Guesnerie, and Roy Radner. Since 2001, the Journal of Mathematical Economics publishes refereed conference issues with a selection of papers presented in EWGET workshops.