ECB Monthly Bulletin | April 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
  • Fiscal developments
  • Boxes:
    • Political tensions in the Middle East and North Africa: economic implications for the euro area
    • The use of trade credit by euro area non-financial corporations
    • Methodological changes in the compilation of the HICP and their impact on recent data
    • Recent housing market developments in the euro area
    • Revisions to euro area GDP growth
    • Sectoral developments in employment and hours worked in the euro area
• Articles
  • Ensuring fiscal sustainability in the euro area
  • The use of euro banknotes – results of two surveys among households and firms
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European
  • Central Bank
  • Glossary