The Committee

The Committee’s mission is to establish the chronology of recessions and expansions of the 11 original euro area member countries plus Greece for 1970-1998, and of the euro area as a whole from 1999 onwards. The Committee issued its first Findings on 22 September 2003 [PDF] and its second Findings on 31 March 2009 [PDF].

The Committee is chaired by Harald Uhlig, and comprises:

Michael Artis (University of Swansea and CEPR)
Fabio Canova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR)
Jordi Galí (CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR)
Francesco Giavazzi (Universita L Bocconi and CEPR)
Richard Portes (CEPR and LBS)
Lucrezia Reichlin (LBS and CEPR)
Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago and CEPR)
Philippe Weil (ECARES, Sciences Po and CEPR)
Volker Wieland (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and CEPR)