ECB Monthly Bulletin | August 2014

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:

• Economic and monetary developments
  • The external environment of the euro area
    • Box 1 The introduction of the euro in Lithuania on 1 January 2015
  • Monetary and financial developments
    • Box 2 The results of the euro area bank lending survey for the second quarter of 2014
    • Box 3 Integrated euro area accounts for the first quarter of 2014
  • Prices and costs
    • Box 4 House prices and the rent component of the HICP in the euro area
    • Box 5 Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the third quarter of 2014
  • Output, demand and the labour market
    • Box 6 A new indicator on euro area capacity utilisation in services
• Articles
  • Experience with foreign currency liquidity-providing central bank swaps
  • New international standards in statistics – enhancements to methodology and data availability
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European Central Bank
  • Glossary