ECB Monthly Bulletin | July 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:
    •  New statistical series of hours worked, productivity and labour costs for the euro area
    • Household consumption of durable goods during the latest recession
    • A comparison of employment developments in the euro area
      and the United States
    • China’s reform of the renminbi exchange rate regime
• Articles
  • Labour market adjustments to the recession in the euro area
  • The effectiveness of euro area fiscal policies
  • The impact of the financial crisis on the central and eastern European countries
• Euro Area Statistics
•  Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Documents published by the European
  • Central Bank since 2009
  • Glossary