ECB Monthly Bulletin | August 2011

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 Statement by the President of the ECB on 7 August 2011
    • 2 The results of the July 2011 bank lending survey for the euro area
    • 3 Integrated euro area accounts for the first quarter of 2011
    • 4 Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the third quarter of 2011
    • 5 The current recovery from a historical perspective
• Article
  • Keeping the ECB’s monetary and financial statistics fit for use
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European
  • Central Bank
  • Glossary