ECB Monthly Bulletin | October 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
  • Monetary and financial developments
    • Box 1 Stylised facts of money and credit over the business cycle
    • Box 2 Review of the risk control framework
  • Prices and costs
    • Box 3 The anchoring of long-term inflation expectations in the euro area
  • Output, demand and the labour market
    • Box 4 How has macroeconomic uncertainty in the euro area evolved recently?
• Articles
  • Commodity prices and their role in assessing euro area growth and inflation
  • Reference interest rates: role, challenges and outlook
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European Central Bank
  • Glossary

• Primary Source

• Alternative Source