ECB Monthly Bulletin | November 2005

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:
    • Macroeconomic implications of high oil prices for emerging market economies
    • The results of the October 2005 bank lending survey for the euro area
    • Diverse patterns in headline and underlying inflation
    • Private sector expectations for the euro area: results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the fourth quarter of 2005
    • The current euro area recovery from a historical perspective
    • Latest developments in investment by type of product
• Articles
  • Price-setting behaviour in the euro area
  • Developments in corporate finance in the euro area
  • Economic and financial relations between the euro area and Russia
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Documents published by the European Central Bank since 2004
  • Glossary