ECB Monthly Bulletin | August 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:
    • Monetary policy operations and liquidity conditions in the reserve maintenance period ending on 23 July 2001
    • Recent developments in corporate bond spreads
    • Release of harmonised statistics for main industrial groupings in short-term statistics
    • Revisions to quarterly national accounts data for the euro area
    • Sectoral employment growth in the euro area
    • Seasonal adjustment of the current account
• Fiscal policies and economic growth
• Product market reforms in the euro area
• Consolidation in central counterparty clearing in the euro area
• Euro area statistics
• Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
• Documents published by the European Central Bank (ECB)