14 May Press release EU 27 brought to Frankfurt within the framework of the 10th anniversary of the European Central Bank (14 May to 2 June 2008) 12 May Speech Jean-Claude Trichet: The governance of globalisation 09 May Press release TARGET2: Confirmation of go-live date for migration group 3 09 May Press release Results of the April 2008 bank lending survey for the euro area 08 May Press conference Jean-Claude Trichet: Introductory statement with Q&A 08 May Press release Monetary policy decisions 07 May Press release Publication of the ECB Convergence Report 2008 06 May Speech Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell: Ten years of European Monetary Union: What is the role of national central banks today? 06 May Speech Jean-Claude Trichet: The handing over of the building permit for the new European Central Bank premises by the City of Frankfurt 02 May Press release Measures to address liquidity pressures in some funding markets 30 Apr Speech Jean-Claude Trichet: How to increase the competitiveness of the European economy 30 Apr Interview Jean-Claude Trichet: Interview with Die Presse, Der Kurier, Der Standard and Salzburger Nachrichten 29 Apr Speech Lucas Papademos: Financial integration in Europe 29 Apr Press release Publication of the report on financial integration in Europe – April 2008 28 Apr Press release Publication of the TARGET Annual Report 2007 28 Apr Speech Jean-Claude Trichet: Toward the First Decade of Economic and Monetary Union – Experiences and Perspectives 25 Apr Other decisions Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates) 25 Apr Speech José Manuel González-Páramo: Concluding Remarks at the Fourth ECB conference on statistics “A strategic vision for statistics: challenges for the next ten years” 24 Apr Speech Jean-Claude Trichet: A strategic vision on euro area statistics: the ECB’s view 24 Apr Speech Jürgen Stark: The contribution of monetary and financial statistics to the conduct of monetary policy 21 Apr Speech Jean-Claude Trichet: Opening speech at the conference on ‘The safety and efficiency of post trading arrangements in Europe’ 21 Apr Speech Lucas Papademos: Presentation of the ECB’s Annual Report 2007 to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament 21 Apr Speech Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell: High-level panel: Improving the efficiency and integration of post-trading arrangements in Europe 17 Apr Speech Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell: Corporates in the Single Euro Payments Area: Business as usual? 15 Apr Speech Jean-Claude Trichet: A unique perspective 15 Apr Speech Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell: Building and preserving trust – Challenges for the financial community 15 Apr Speech Jürgen Stark: Monetary policy and the euro

14/05/2008 Working paper no. 902 Fiscal consolidation in the euro area: long-run benefits and short-run costs. , 14/05/2008 Working paper no. 901 The usefulness of infra-annual government cash budgetary data for fiscal forecasting in the euro area , 14/05/2008 Working paper no. 899 Robust monetary rules under unstructured and structured model uncertainty , 14/05/2008 Working paper no. 898 Central Bank communication and monetary policy: a survey of theory and evidence , 13/05/2008 Working paper no. 897 DSGE-Modelling: when agents are imperfectly informed , 13/05/2008 Working paper no. 896 The Maastricht Convergence Criteria and Optimal Monetary Policy for the EMU Accession Countries. , 08/05/2008 Occasional paper no. 84 Short-term forecasting of GDP using large monthly datasets: a pseudo real-time forecast evaluation exercise ,

08/05/2008 MFI interest rate statistics 06/05/2008 Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector 25/04/2008 Monetary developments in the euro area 21/04/2008 Euro area securities issues statistics 10/04/2008 Euro area investment fund statistics 10/04/2008 MFI interest rate statistics

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