This inaugural Workshop for Young Scholars was arranged under the auspices of and with financial support from the Econometric Society and the Econometric Society Australasian Standing Committee (ESASC). Twenty-five scholars met for two days in Hamilton, New Zealand immediately following the Econometric Society Australasian Meeting which was held in Auckland over July 6–8. (A report by Les Oxley on these Econometric Society Meetings, entitled “2001 Econometric Society Australasian Meeting: Auckland,” will appear in the Journal of Economic Surveys (2001), vol. 15.) The Waikato Young Scholars Workshop represented the culmination of 18 months of planning and organization following an initiative from the Executive of the Econometric Society to encourage special projects by regional committees.