ECB Monthly Bulletin | April 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
• Box:
  • Monetary policy operations and liquidity conditions in the reserve maintenance period ending on 23 March 2002
• The operation of automatic fiscal stabilisers in the euro area
• The role of the Eurosystem in payment and clearing systems
• Enhancements to MFI balance sheet and interest rate statistics
• Euro area statistics
• Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
• Documents published by the European Central Bank (ECB)

• Primary Source