ECB Monthly Bulletin | October 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:

• Editorial
• Economic and monetary developments
  • The external environment of the euro area
  • Monetary and financial developments 14
    • Box 1 The targeted longer-term refinancing operation of September 2014
  • 3 Prices and costs
    • Box 2 Developments in consumer gas prices in the euro area
  • Output, demand and the labour market
    • Box 3 What lies behind the recent decline in economic sentiment?
• Articles
  • The impact of the economic crisis on euro area labour markets
  • The assessment of fiscal effort
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Publications produced by the European Central Bank
  • Glossary