ECB Monthly Bulletin | February 2002

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 developments in the euro area
  • Monetary and financial developments
  • Price developments
  • Output, demand and labour market developments
  • Exchange rate and balance of payments developments
• Boxes:
  • Monetary policy operations and liquidity conditions in the reserve maintenance period ending on 23 January 2002
  • Deriving long-term euro area inflation expectations from index-linked bonds issued by the French Treasury
  • Business survey data for activity in the euro area services sectors
  • The information content of job vacancies in the euro area
• The stock market and monetary policy
• Recent developments in international co-operation
• Euro area statistics
• Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
• Documents published by the European Central Bank (ECB)