ECB Monthly Bulletin | August 2012

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
  •  Boxes:
    • 1 Recent developments in oil prices
    • 2 The results of the euro area bank lending survey for the second quarter of 2012
    • 3 Integrated euro area accounts for the first quarter of 2012
    • 4 Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the third quarter of 2012
    • 5 Adjustment processes within the euro area: developments in Ireland, Greece, Spain, Cyprus and Portugal
• Articles
  • Heterogeneity in euro area financial conditions and policy implications
  • Assessing the financing conditions of the euro area private sector during the sovereign debt crisis
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European
  • Central Bank
  • Glossary

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