ECB Monthly Bulletin | February 2007

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:
    • Implications of the entry of Slovenia into the euro area for monetary statistics
    • The results of the January 2007 bank lending survey for the euro area
    • Stock prices and earnings in the euro area
    • Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the first quarter of 2007
    • Recent developments in construction
    • The introduction of harmonised competitiveness indicators for euro area countries
• Articles
  • Challenges to fiscal sustainability in the euro area
  • The EU arrangements for financial crisis management
  • Migrant remittances to regions neighbouring the EU
• Euro Area Statistics
• Annexes
  • Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
  • Documents published by the European Central Bank since 2006
  • Glossary