ECB Monthly Bulletin | January 2010

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 and Monetary Developments
  • The external environment of the euro area
  • Monetary and financial developments
  • Prices and costs
  • Output, demand and the labour market
  • Exchange rate and balance of payments developments
  • Boxes:
    • External adjustment in central and eastern Europe
    • New statistics on euro area investment funds
    • Base effects and their impact on HICP inflation in 2010
    • Measuring perceptions of macroeconomic uncertainty
    • International trade developments and revision of the effective exchange rates of the euro
• Articles
  • The ECB’s monetary policy stance during the financial crisis
  • The ECB’s relations with European Union institutions and bodies –
    trends and prospects
  • Entitlements of households under government pension schemes in the euro area – results on the basis of the new system of national accounts
• Euro Area Statistics
•  Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Documents published by the European
  • Central Bank since 2009
  • Glossary