ECB Monthly Bulletin | July 2002

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 developments in the euro area
  • Monetary and financial developments
  • Price developments
  • Output, demand and labour market developments
  • Exchange rate and balance of payments developments
• Boxes:
  • Monetary policy operations and liquidity conditions in the reserve maintenance period ending on 23 June 2002
  • Recent developments in consumers’ inflation perceptions
  • Recent developments in services prices in the euro area
  • The Broad Economic Policy Guidelines 2002
• Characteristics of the euro area business cycle in the 1990s
• The Eurosystem’s dialogue with EU accession countries
• Developments in the external direct and portfolio investment flows of the euro area
• Euro area statistics
• Chronology of monetary policy measures of the Eurosystem
• Documents published by the European Central Bank