ECB Monthly Bulletin | February 2001

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:
    • The derivation and use of flow data in monetary statistics
    • Monetary policy operations and liquidity conditions in the reserve maintenance period ending on 23 January 2000
    • Recent developments in euro area labour cost indicators
    • Characteristics of corporate finance in the euro area
    • Towards a uniform service level for retail payments in the euro area
• The external communication of the European Central Bank
• Euro area statistics
• Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
• Documents published by the European Central Bank (ECB)