She has also led the team that produces CEPR's euro area business cycle indicator, EuroCOIN™, is head of the Scientific Committee of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN), and is Chair of CEPR's Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee.

Professor Reichlin’s research is in macroeconomics and applied time series analysis. She has worked on techniques for identifying the sources of economic fluctuations and on the development of econometric methods to study the dynamics of large panels of economic time series, and has applied these methods to forecasting techniques and to the construction of indexes of economic activity and inflation.

Reichlin received her Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 1986. After holding posts at the European University Institute in Florence, the Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques in Paris and the Columbia Graduate School of Business, she has been a Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles since 1994. Lucrezia Reichlin is a former member of the Council of the European Economic Association (EEA) and a Fellow of the Association. She serves on the editorial board of several journals and is Chair of the Programme Committee for the 2005 EEA Annual Congress.

See the European Central Bank Press Release.