Lucrezia Reichlin
Lucrezia Reichlin is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel. She specialises in applied time series, business cycle and macroeconomic policy.
She covers monetary policy, financial and fiscal policy – particularly in Europe – and disclosure standards for climate related risks. She is an applied macroeconomist and econometrician, who has pioneered methods for forecasting with large datasets and for now-casting.
She speaks English, French and Italian.
She is also a Professor of Economics at the London Business School, Chair and Co-founder of Now-Casting Economics, Distinguished Fellow of the Center of European Policy Research (CEPR), Chairman of the “Groupe des Écoles Nationales d'Économie et Statistique” in Paris and member of the French National Productivity Council. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society, Honorary International Fellow of the American Economic Association and Founding Fellow of the Applied Econometric Association. Previously, she was Director General of Research at the European Central Bank, Trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation and of the CEPR, board member of several international financial institutions (including Unicredit, Morgan Stanley International and the Ageas Insurance Group). She holds a PhD in Economics from New York University.
Featured work
A new strategy to contain stablecoin risks in the European Union
EU reluctance on stablecoins may backfire as US-backed dollar tokens spread, pushing demand offshore and importing dollar risks into Europe
Money, stablecoins and the dollar
The past, present and future of money
The European Union should embrace decentralised finance and make it safe
A hybrid system with a digital euro and regulated private money would safeguard the EU from dollar-denominated stablecoin dominance
The ECB is not the Fed
What does it mean to be an independent and credible central bank, and how do the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank stack up?
The European Central Bank must adapt to an environment of inflation volatility
The ECB must adapt its strategy to a new era of supply disruptions
The Euro at 25: Fit for purpose?
A Global Deal for Our Pandemic Age
Report of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
Urgent reform of the EU resolution framework is needed
In this blog, the authors argue that two aspects of the European resolution framework are particularly in need of reform – the bail-in regime and the
A European approach to fund the coronavirus cost is in the interest of all
We had not seen a common challenge as clear as this pandemic. The sum of national actions and programs is likely to be insufficient.
The macroeconomic policy response to the COVID-19 crisis
From the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to "coronabonds", the EU seems to be struggling to find an appropriate mechanism to tackle the economic cr
All work
Podcast
20 May 2026
Money, stablecoins and the dollar
The past, present and future of money
Policy Brief
20 May 2026
A new strategy to contain stablecoin risks in the European Union
EU reluctance on stablecoins may backfire as US-backed dollar tokens spread, pushing demand offshore and importing dollar risks into Europe
Event
20 May 2026
China-EU economic relations and preserving stability amid geopolitical shocks
Closed-door roundtable discussion, jointly organised with the China Finance 40 Forum
Event
11 February 2026
Security in Europe: how will it affect growth and competitiveness?
Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in London, jointly organised with the LSE European Institute
Analysis
15 December 2025
The European Union should embrace decentralised finance and make it safe
A hybrid system with a digital euro and regulated private money would safeguard the EU from dollar-denominated stablecoin dominance
Podcast
04 September 2025
The ECB is not the Fed
What does it mean to be an independent and credible central bank, and how do the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank stack up?
Analysis
12 June 2024
The European Central Bank must adapt to an environment of inflation volatility
The ECB must adapt its strategy to a new era of supply disruptions
Conference
04 September 2024
Bruegel Annual Meetings | 4-5 September 2024
This year's Annual Meetings centered around the launch of the Bruegel Memos to the European Union leadership 2024-2029
Report
07 February 2024
Event
21 September 2023