ECB Monthly Bulletin | August 2013

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
    • Box 1 The introduction of the euro in Latvia on 1 January 2014
  • Monetary and fi nancial developments
    • Box 2 The perceived external fi nancing gap indicator for small and medium-sized enterprises in the euro area
    • Box 3 The results of the euro area bank lending survey for the second quarter of 2013
    • Box 4 Stock market developments in the light of the current low-yield environment
    • Box 5 Integrated euro area accounts for the fi rst quarter of 2013
  • Prices and costs
    • Box 6 Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the third quarter of 2013
  • Output, demand and the labour market
    • Box 7 Labour market developments in the euro area and the United States since the beginning of the global financial crisis
• Articles
  • Assessing the retail bank interest rate pass-through in the euro area at times of financial fragmentation
  • A macro stress-testing framework for bank solvency analysis
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European Central Bank
  • Glossary

• Alternative Source 1