ECB Monthly Bulletin | October 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 Compliance of outright monetary transactions with the prohibition on monetary financing
      • 2 Developments in the housing market in China
      • 3 The impact of very low interest rates on monetary dynamics
      • 4 Recent developments in consumer prices for oil products
      • 5 Stock prices and economic growth
• Articles
  • Global liquidity: concepts, measurements and implications from a monetary policy perspective
  • Euro area labour markets and the crisis
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European
  • Central Bank
  • Glossary

• Primary Source

• Alternative Source