ECB Monthly Bulletin | October 2000

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 rates and the balance of payments developments
    • Boxes:
      • Monetary policy operations and liquidity conditions in the reserve maintenance period ending on 23 September 2000
      • Different ways of calculating the growth rate of real GDP
• Potential output growth and output gaps: concept, uses and estimates
• The ECB’s relations with institutions and bodies of the European Community
• Euro area statistics
• Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
• Documents published by the European Central Bank (ECB)