ECB Monthly Bulletin | April 2013

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
    • Box 1 Recent developments in US fiscal policy and their likely impact on economic activity
  • Monetary and financial developments
    • Box 2 Net foreign liabilities in selected euro area countries
  • Prices and costs
    • Box 3 Industrial producer prices for sales in domestic and non-domestic markets
  • Output, demand and the labour market
    • Box 4 Update of the index and weight reference year to 2010 for short-term business statistics
    • Box 5 Estimates of slack in the labour market
    • Box 6 The “two-pack” regulations to strengthen economic governance in the euro area
• Articles
  • The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey: description and main results of the first wave
  • Liquidity regulation and monetary policy implementation
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European Central Bank
  • Glossary

• Primary Source

• Alternative Source