ECB Monthly Bulletin | February 2008

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:
    • Stylised facts about the MFI sectors of Cyprus and Malta and their impact on monetary data for the euro area
    • The results of the January 2008 bank lending survey for the euro area
    • How cross-border correlations in equity markets have changed during the recent financial turmoil
    • Recent developments in euro area residential property prices
    • Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the first quarter of 2008
• Articles
  • The analysis of the euro money market from a monetary policy perspective
  • Securitisation in the euro area
  • The new euro area yield curves
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Documents published by the European Central Bank since 2007
  • Glossary