ECB Monthly Bulletin | April 2012

Summary:

The Monthly Bulletin was published from January 1999 to December 2014. The Monthly Bulletin was published one week after each monetary policy meeting of the ECB's Governing Council. It explained the monetary policy decision and provided a detailed analysis of the current economic situation and risks to price stability.

Table of Contents:

• Editorial
• Economic and Monetary Developments
  • The external environment of the euro area
  • Monetary and financial developments
  • Prices and costs
  • Output, demand and the labour market
  • Boxes:
    • 1 New statistical definition of euro area money market funds
    • 2 Factors affecting lending to the private sector and the short-term outlook for money and loan dynamics
    • 3 New standards for HICP weights
    • 4 The anatomy of current account reversals
    • 5 The new approach to seasonal adjustment of European aggregates in short-term statistics
• Articles
  • Analysing government debt sustainability in the euro area
  • The development of prices and costs during the 2008-09 recession
  • Financial reporting in the Eurosystem
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European
  • Central Bank
  • Glossary

• Primary Source

• Alternative Source