﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Press releases</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00.htm</link><description /><copyright>(c) </copyright><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130524_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence picks up in May</description><pubDate>2013-05-24</pubDate></item><item><title>May 2013 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130522_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Slight rise in consumer confidence in May</description><pubDate>2013-05-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, May 2013</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130517_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2013-05-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130516_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance in February 2013</description><pubDate>2013-05-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130513_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2013-05-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - National accounts - Quarterly accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130503_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>National accounts - Quarterly accounts</description><pubDate>2013-05-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130503_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>In the first quarter of 2013, economic activity has risen by 0,1 %. With a 0,1 %c. decline in the fourth quarter, economic activity has fallen by 0,3 % in the year 2012 as a whole.</description><pubDate>2013-05-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - National accounts - First estimate of the annual accounts (F - N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130503_estimate_annual_accounts.htm</link><description>National accounts - First estimate of the annual accounts</description><pubDate>2013-05-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Eurosystem introduces Europa series €5 banknote</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130502_invoering_5_eurobiljet.htm</link><description>A new €5 banknote, the first one in the Europa series, started to circulate today in the euro area countries.</description><pubDate>2013-05-02</pubDate></item><item><title>Europa series €5 banknote to be issued as of 2 may 2013</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130430_nieuw_5_eurobiljet.htm</link><description>The Eurosystem, comprising the European Central Bank (ECB) and the national central banks of the euro area countries, has completed preparations for the introduction of a new €5, the first banknote in the Europa series.</description><pubDate>2013-04-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Summons to the Ordinary General Meeting of the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130426_generalmeeting.htm</link><description>Regulated information distributed by the National Bank of Belgium on 26 April 2013&lt;BR&gt;</description><pubDate>2013-04-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130424_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Little change in business confidence in April</description><pubDate>2013-04-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, April 2013</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130419_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2013-04-19</pubDate></item><item><title>April 2013 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130419_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence recovers somewhat in April</description><pubDate>2013-04-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130415_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2013-04-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130415_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance in Januari 2013</description><pubDate>2013-04-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130411_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2013-04-11</pubDate></item><item><title>The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130409_household.htm</link><description>Results from the first wave</description><pubDate>2013-04-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Two teams of Belgian schoolchildren to win invitation to the ECB to meet its President Mario Draghi</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130403_generation.htm</link><description>The Generation €uro Students’ Award is a contest targeted at teams of pupils from the last two years of secondary school that is being organised by eleven central banks in the euro area</description><pubDate>2013-04-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Government accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130328_INR_government_accounts.htm</link><description>Belgium has notified the European Commission of a deficit of 3.9 % of GDP and a debt ratio of 99.6 % of GDP for the year 2012. These figures take the Dexia recapitalisation into account.</description><pubDate>2013-03-28</pubDate></item><item><title>Results and dividend for the financial year 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130327_dividend.htm</link><description>The National Bank of Belgium informs its shareholders that the gross dividend over the financial year 2012 has been fixed at 154,04 EUR.</description><pubDate>2013-03-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, March 2013</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130322_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2013-02-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130322_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence declines in March</description><pubDate>2013-03-22</pubDate></item><item><title>March 2013 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130319_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence falls back sharply in March</description><pubDate>2013-03-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130315_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance in December 2012</description><pubDate>2013-03-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130311_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2013-03-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130306_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>The economic activity about 2012 decreased by 0.2% after a decline of 0.1% in the fourth quarter</description><pubDate>2013-03-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130225_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2013-02-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, February 2013</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130222_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2013-02-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130222_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence picks up again in February</description><pubDate>2013-02-22</pubDate></item><item><title>February 2013 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130219_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Marked improvement in consumer confidence in February</description><pubDate>2013-02-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130215_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance in November 2012</description><pubDate>2013-02-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130211_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2013-02-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Regional accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130208_NAI+-+Regional+accounts.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Regional accounts</description><pubDate>2013-02-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Communiqué de presse relatif à la mise en place, d’ici un an, del’espace unique de paiement en euros (SEPA)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130131_Gemeenschappelijk_eurobetalingsgebied_SEPA.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2013-01-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130130_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>In the fourth quarter of 2012, economic activity fell by 0.1%. For the year 2012 as a whole, GDP would decline by 0.2%.</description><pubDate>2013-01-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, January 2013</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130125_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2013-01-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130124_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence weakens in January</description><pubDate>2013-01-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Central Individual Credit Register: Key developments in 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130123_credits_evolution.htm</link><description>Fin 2012, la Centrale contient les données de 6 236 412 personnes et 11 437 787 contrats de crédit, une progression légère de 0,9 % par rapport à 2011.</description><pubDate>2013-01-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 241</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130121_WP241.htm</link><description>The influence of the Taylor rule on US monetary policy</description><pubDate>2013-01-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Consumer confidence recovers slightly in January</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130118_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>&lt;DIV&gt;Consumer confidence recovers slightly in January</description><pubDate>2013-01-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130115_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2013-01-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130115_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance shows slight deficit in Oktober 2012</description><pubDate>2013-01-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130111_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2013-01-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Eurosystem unveils the Europa series €5 banknote</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20130110_5-euro-note.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2013-01-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, December 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121221_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-12-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Public consultation</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121221_fitproper.htm</link><description>National Bank of Belgium launches public consultation on its new "Fit and proper" policy for leaders of financial institutions</description><pubDate>2012-12-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121220_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence stabilises in November</description><pubDate>2012-12-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121219_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2012-12-19</pubDate></item><item><title>December 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121218_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence down a bit further in December</description><pubDate>2012-12-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 240</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121217_WP240.htm</link><description>On the origins of the Triffin dilemma: Empirical business cycle analysis and imperfect competition theory</description><pubDate>2012-12-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Satellite account of non-profit institutions (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121214_INR_Satellite_account.htm</link><pubDate>2012-12-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121214_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance positive in September 2012</description><pubDate>2012-12-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121212_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2012-12-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Endogenous Financial Risk: the Seventh International Conference of the NBB</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121210_fendogenousfinancialrisk.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2012</description><pubDate>2012-12-10</pubDate></item><item><title>The 2011 social balance sheet</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121210_esocialbalance.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2012</description><pubDate>2012-12-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Results and financial situation of firms in 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121210_dfirms2011.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2012</description><pubDate>2012-12-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Belgium's progress towards SEPA - the Single Euro Payments Area</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121210_cSEPA.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2012</description><pubDate>2012-12-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Labour market integration of the population of foreign origin</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121210_blabourmarket.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2012</description><pubDate>2012-12-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Autumn 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121210_aeconomicprojections.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2012</description><pubDate>2012-12-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 239</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121205_WP239.htm</link><description>Concording EU trade and production data over time</description><pubDate>2012-12-05</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 238</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121205_WP238.htm</link><description>Importers, exporters, and exchange rate disconnect</description><pubDate>2012-12-05</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 237</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121205_WP237.htm</link><description>Services versus goods trade: Are they the same?</description><pubDate>2012-12-05</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121205_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>&lt;P&gt;Economic activity has stabilized in the third quarter of 2012&lt;/P&gt;</description><pubDate>2012-12-05</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121126_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2012-11-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, November 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121123_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-11-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121123_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence stabilises in November</description><pubDate>2012-11-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Central Balance Sheet Office key figures</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121121_kerncijfers.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2012-11-21</pubDate></item><item><title>October 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121120_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Sharp deterioration in consumer confidence in November</description><pubDate>2012-11-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121115_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance in August 2012</description><pubDate>2012-11-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121112_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2012-11-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Eurosystem to introduce second series in euro banknotes - the "Europa"-series</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121108_bankbiljetten.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2012-11-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121031_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Economic activity stabilized in the third quarter of 2012</description><pubDate>2012-10-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121023_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business climate weakens in October</description><pubDate>2012-10-23</pubDate></item><item><title>The economic importance of the Belgian ports</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121022_seaport.htm</link><description>Flash estimate 2011</description><pubDate>2012-10-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, Oktober 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121019_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-10-19</pubDate></item><item><title>October 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121018_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence falls back in October</description><pubDate>2012-10-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121015_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2012-10-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Labour market mismatches</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121008_dmismatches.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2012</description><pubDate>2012-10-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Euro area labour markets and the crisis</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121008_carbeidsmarkten.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2012</description><pubDate>2012-10-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Belgian business investment in the context of the crisis</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121008_binvestering.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2012</description><pubDate>2012-10-08</pubDate></item><item><title>What is the role played by the Eurosystem during the financial crisis?</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20121008_arol.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2012</description><pubDate>2012-10-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, September 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120921_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-09-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120921_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence nearly stabilises in September</description><pubDate>2012-09-21</pubDate></item><item><title>September 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120919_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence recovers slightly in September</description><pubDate>2012-09-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120915_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance positive in July 2012</description><pubDate>2012-09-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120914_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>First half of 2012: imports and exports slightly declining</description><pubDate>2012-09-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release on the publication of the "Fourth progress report on the migration towards SEPA in Belgium"</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120913_sepa.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2012-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120912_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2012-09-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120907_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>In the second quarter of 2012, GDP has decreased by 0,5 %</description><pubDate>2012-09-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Karakterlijnen - Traits de caractère</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120903_expo.htm</link><pubDate>2012-09-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120824_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence dips slightly in August</description><pubDate>2012-08-24</pubDate></item><item><title>August 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120821_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence declines further in August</description><pubDate>2012-08-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120816_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance shows slight deficit in May 2012</description><pubDate>2012-08-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, August 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120803_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-08-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 226</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120802_WP226.htm</link><description>&lt;P&gt;Dissecting the dynamics of the US trade balance in an estimated equilibrium model&lt;/P&gt;</description><pubDate>2012-08-02</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120801_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>In the second quarter of 2012, economic activity decreased by 0.6 %</description><pubDate>2012-08-01</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120725_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence improves slightly in July</description><pubDate>2012-07-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120720_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2012-07-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, July 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120720_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-07-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Government accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120720_INR_government_accounts.htm</link><description>Government accounts</description><pubDate>2012-07-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Detailed annual accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120720_INR_detailed_annual_accounts.htm</link><description>Belgian economy grows by 1,8 % in 2011</description><pubDate>2012-07-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120719_financialaccounts.htm</link><description>Financial accounts of Belgium</description><pubDate>2012-07-19</pubDate></item><item><title>July 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120719_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>July brings fall in consumer confidence</description><pubDate>2012-07-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 225</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120717_WP225.htm</link><description>Economic importance of the Belgian ports: Flemish maritime ports, Liège port complex and the port of Brussels - Report 2010</description><pubDate>2012-07-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120716_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance in deficit in April 2012</description><pubDate>2012-07-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120711_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2012-07-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Interim report: Structural Banking Reforms in Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120706_rapportbanktestamenten.htm</link><description>Interim report: Structural Banking Reforms in Belgium</description><pubDate>2012-07-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, June 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120622_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-06-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial Stability Review 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120622_fsr.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2012-06-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120622_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business confidence further eroded in June</description><pubDate>2012-06-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120620_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2012-06-20</pubDate></item><item><title>June 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120618_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence indicator stabilises in June</description><pubDate>2012-06-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120615_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance shows slight surplus in the month of March</description><pubDate>2012-06-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120611_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2012-06-11</pubDate></item><item><title>New developments in the economic governance of the European Union</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120611_fontwikkelingen.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2012</description><pubDate>2012-06-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Asset formation by households during the financial crisis</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120611_eActivavorming.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2012</description><pubDate>2012-06-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Reform of the Special Finance Act for the Communities and Regions</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120611_dhervorming.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2012</description><pubDate>2012-06-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Monetary policy in the United States and the euro area during the crisis</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120611_cmonetairbeleid.htm</link><description>Article for the June 2012 issue of the Economic Review</description><pubDate>2012-06-11</pubDate></item><item><title>What can we and can't we infer from the recourse to the deposit facility?</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120611_bdepositofaciliteit.htm</link><description>Article for the June 2012 Economic Review</description><pubDate>2012-06-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium – Spring 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120611_aprojecties.htm</link><description>&lt;P&gt;Article for the June 2012 Economic Review&lt;/P&gt;</description><pubDate>2012-06-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120606_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>In the first quarter of 2012, economic activity has risen by 0,3 p.c.</description><pubDate>2012-06-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Ordinary general Meeting of Shareholders of 29 May 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120530_generalmeeting2012.htm</link><pubDate>2012-05-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120524_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business barometer declines again slightly in May</description><pubDate>2012-05-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120522_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2012-05-22</pubDate></item><item><title>May 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120522_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence resumes upward path in May</description><pubDate>2012-05-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, May 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120518_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-05-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120515_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance in February 2012</description><pubDate>2012-05-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120502_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Economic growth is 0.3 % in the first quarter of 2012</description><pubDate>2012-05-02</pubDate></item><item><title>Summons to the Ordinary General Meeting of the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120427_generalmeeting.htm</link><description>Regulated information distributed by the National Bank of Belgium on 27 April 2012</description><pubDate>2012-04-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120424_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business barometer down slightly for the second consecutive month</description><pubDate>2012-04-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, April 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120423_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-04-23</pubDate></item><item><title>April 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120419_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stabilises in April</description><pubDate>2012-04-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120416_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2012-04-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120416_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance recorded in January 2012</description><pubDate>2012-04-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120411_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2012-04-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 224</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120404_WP224.htm</link><description>Asymmetric information in credit markets, bank leverage cycles and macroeconomic dynamics</description><pubDate>2012-04-04</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Government accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120330_INR_government_accounts.htm</link><description>Belgium has notified the European Commission of a deficit of 3.7 % of GDP and a debt ratio of 98.2 % of GDP for the year 2011</description><pubDate>2012-03-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Results and dividend for the financial year 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120328_dividend.htm</link><description>Shareholder information</description><pubDate>2012-03-28</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 223</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120326_WP223.htm</link><description>(Not so) easy come, (still) easy go? Footloose multinationals revisited</description><pubDate>2012-03-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, March 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120323_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-03-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 222</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120322_WP222.htm</link><description>Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa and the origins of the euro</description><pubDate>2012-03-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Business surveys</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120322_Conjunctuuronderzoekingen.htm</link><description>Business barometer declines slightly in March</description><pubDate>2012-03-22</pubDate></item><item><title>March 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120320_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence picks up in March</description><pubDate>2012-02-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120315_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance for year 2011 shows € 7.7 billion deficit</description><pubDate>2012-03-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 221</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120314_WP221.htm</link><description>Implementation of EU legislation on rail liberalisation in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands</description><pubDate>2012-03-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120312_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2012-03-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120307_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>As a result of a decrease of 0.1% fall in the fourth quarter, economic activity has risen by 1.9% in the year 2011 as a whole</description><pubDate>2012-03-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, February 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120224_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-02-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - February 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120222_Conjunctuurbarometer_februari.htm</link><description>New rise in the business barometer in February</description><pubDate>2012-02-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120220_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2012-02-20</pubDate></item><item><title>February 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120220_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence declines further in February</description><pubDate>2012-02-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120215_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance recorded in November 2011</description><pubDate>2012-02-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Projections économiques pour la Belgique: Actualisation de février 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120215_EconomProjecties.htm</link><description>Projections économiques pour la Belgique: Actualisation de février 2012</description><pubDate>2012-02-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120213_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2012-02-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 220</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120202_WP220.htm</link><description>Institutions and export dynamics&lt;BR&gt;</description><pubDate>2012-02-02</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, January 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120202_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2012-02-02</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120201_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>In the fourth quarter of 2011, economic activity decreased by 0.2 %, so that the first estimate of economic growth in 2011 amounts to 1.9 %</description><pubDate>2012-02-01</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - January 2012</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120124_Conjunctuurbarometer_januari.htm</link><description>Business confidence improves again slightly in January</description><pubDate>2012-01-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120119_financialaccounts.htm</link><description>Financial accounts of Belgium</description><pubDate>2012-01-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Central Individual Credit Register: Key developments in 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120119_credits_evolution.htm</link><description>La Centrale reprenait, fin 2011, les données concernant 6 181 461 personnes et 11 326 958 crédits, soit des hausses de respectivement 24,5 % et 37,2 %.</description><pubDate>2012-01-19</pubDate></item><item><title>January 2012 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120119_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence down in January</description><pubDate>2012-01-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 219</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120117_WP219.htm</link><description>Comparative advantage, multi-product firms and trade liberalisation: An empirical test</description><pubDate>2012-01-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120116_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2012-01-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120116_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance in surplus in October 2011</description><pubDate>2012-01-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20120113_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2012-01-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Regional accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111223_NAI+-+Regional+accounts.htm</link><description>Regional Accounts 2009: First results of the definitive method</description><pubDate>2011-12-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, December 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111222_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-12-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - December 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111221_Conjunctuurbarometer_december.htm</link><description>Business confidence picks up slightly in December</description><pubDate>2011-12-21</pubDate></item><item><title>December 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111219_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence recovers slightly in December</description><pubDate>2011-12-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 218</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111216_WP218.htm</link><description>Economic Importance of Air Transport and Airport Activities in Belgium – Report 2009</description><pubDate>2011-12-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111215_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance during month of September 2011</description><pubDate>2011-12-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111215_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2011-12-15</pubDate></item><item><title>The 2010 social balance sheet</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111214_fbalans.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2011</description><pubDate>2011-12-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Results and financial situation of firms in 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111214_eresultaten.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2011</description><pubDate>2011-12-14</pubDate></item><item><title>International trade in services</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111214_ddienstenverkeer.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2011</description><pubDate>2011-12-14</pubDate></item><item><title>The distributive trade sector and its impact on euro area prices</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111214_cprijzen.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2011</description><pubDate>2011-12-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Public sector wages</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111214_blonen.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2011</description><pubDate>2011-12-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Autumn 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111214_aprojecties.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2011</description><pubDate>2011-12-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111212_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2011-12-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Capital buffer exercise 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111208_kapitaalbuffer.htm</link><description>KBC Bank and Dexia were subject to the 2011 capital buffer exercise conducted by the European Banking Authority (EBA) in cooperation with the National Bank of Belgium.</description><pubDate>2011-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111207_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>In the third quarter of 2011, GDP has decreased by 0,1 p.c.</description><pubDate>2011-12-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Nouvelle présentation des statistiques mensuelles de la Centrale des crédits aux particuliers</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111205_CKP.htm</link><description>Nouvelle présentation des statistiques mensuelles de la Centrale des crédits aux particuliers</description><pubDate>2011-12-05</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 217</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111124_WP217.htm</link><description>The evolution of Alexandre Lamfalussy's thought on the international and European monetary system (1961-1993)</description><pubDate>2011-11-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - November 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111124_Conjunctuurbarometer_november.htm</link><description>Further drop in business confidence in November</description><pubDate>2011-11-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, November 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111118_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-11-18</pubDate></item><item><title>November 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111118_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence falls back sharply in November</description><pubDate>2011-11-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111116_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance during month of August 2011</description><pubDate>2011-11-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111028_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate</description><pubDate>2011-10-28</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 216</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111025_WP216.htm</link><description>Verti-zontal differentiation in monopolistic competition</description><pubDate>2011-10-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - October 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111025_Conjunctuurbarometer_oktober.htm</link><description>Business barometer falls a little further in October</description><pubDate>2011-10-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, October 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111021_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-10-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Oktober 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111019_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence recovers slightly in October</description><pubDate>2011-10-19</pubDate></item><item><title>The economic importance of the Belgian ports</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111017_seaport.htm</link><description>Flash estimate 2010</description><pubDate>2011-10-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111017_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2011-10-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111014_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance slightly negative in July 2011.</description><pubDate>2011-10-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Exposition D'or et de plumes</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111007_expo.htm</link><description>Exposition D'or et de plumes: Systèmes d'échange et de valeurs au Brésil</description><pubDate>2011-10-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release regarding Dexia</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20111004_Dexia.htm</link><pubDate>2011-10-04</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110930_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>Economic growth reached 0.5 pc. in the second quarter of 2011</description><pubDate>2011-09-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Detailed annual accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110930_INR.htm</link><description>Economic activity progress of 2,3 percent in 2010</description><pubDate>2011-09-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - September 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110923_Conjunctuurbarometer_september.htm</link><description>Business barometer continues to fall in September</description><pubDate>2011-09-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, September 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110921_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-09-21</pubDate></item><item><title>September 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110920_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stabilises in September</description><pubDate>2011-09-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110919_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2011-09-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110915_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Exports and imports up by almost 20% in first half of 2011</description><pubDate>2011-09-15</pubDate></item><item><title>The impact of low interest rates on household financial behaviour</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110913_erente.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2011</description><pubDate>2011-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>The economic impact of the fight against climate change</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110913_dklimaat.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2011</description><pubDate>2011-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Developments in private consumption over the past three years</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110913_cconsumptie.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2011</description><pubDate>2011-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>The Europe 2020 strategy</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110913_bstrategie.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2011</description><pubDate>2011-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic impact of the public debt</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110913_aimpact.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2011</description><pubDate>2011-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110826_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2011-08-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - August 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110824_Conjunctuurbarometer_augustus.htm</link><description>Business barometer drops further in August</description><pubDate>2011-08-24</pubDate></item><item><title>August 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110819_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence falls further in August</description><pubDate>2011-08-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Exhibition in the Scientific Library of the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110817_kunst.htm</link><description>Exhibition in the Scientific Library of the National Bank of Belgium&lt;BR&gt;29 August - 22 October 2011</description><pubDate>2011-08-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110816_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance slightly negative in May 2011</description><pubDate>2011-08-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110810_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2011-08-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, August 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110805_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-08-05</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110729_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate</description><pubDate>2011-07-29</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - July 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110725_Conjunctuurbarometer_juli.htm</link><description>Business barometer falls back again in July</description><pubDate>2011-07-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, July 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110722_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-07-22</pubDate></item><item><title>July 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110720_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence weakens slightly in July</description><pubDate>2011-07-20</pubDate></item><item><title>KBC Bank and Dexia Capital Update - EU Wide Stress Test Results</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110715_stresstest.htm</link><description>KBC Bank and Dexia Capital Update - EU Wide Stress Test Results</description><pubDate>2011-07-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110715_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2011-07-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110715_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance positive in April 2011</description><pubDate>2011-07-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110711_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2011-07-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Versement de dividende par la Banque des règlements internationaux</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110627_bib.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2011-06-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 215</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110623_WP215.htm</link><description>Economic importance of the Belgian ports: Flemish maritime ports, Liège port complex and port of Brussels - Report 2009</description><pubDate>2011-06-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - June 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110623_Conjunctuurbarometer_juni.htm</link><description>Business confidence drops in June</description><pubDate>2011-06-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, June 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110622_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-06-22</pubDate></item><item><title>June 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110620_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence drops in June</description><pubDate>2011-06-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110617_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance slightly negative in March 2011</description><pubDate>2011-06-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110617_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2011-06-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial Stability Review 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110616_fsr.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2011-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>The Belgian labour market during and after the crisis</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110615_earbeidsmarkt.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2011</description><pubDate>2011-06-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Behaviour of Belgian firms in the context of globalisation: lessons from the conference on "International Trade: Threats and Opportunities in a Globalised World"</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110615_dmondialisering.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2011</description><pubDate>2011-06-15</pubDate></item><item><title>End of the crisis in the housing markets? An international survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110615_chousing.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2011</description><pubDate>2011-06-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Central bank rates, market rates and retail bank rates in the euro zone in the context of the recent economic and financial crisis</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110615_brente.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2011</description><pubDate>2011-06-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Spring 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110615_aprojectie.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2011</description><pubDate>2011-06-15</pubDate></item><item><title>La Cour d'appel donne à nouveau raison à la Banque nationale</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110614_appel.htm</link><description>Les actionnaires privés ne peuvent faire valoir aucun droit sur les réserves d'or et les plus-values réalisées sur l'or</description><pubDate>2011-06-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110608_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>Economic growth reached 1.1 pc. in the first quarter of 2011</description><pubDate>2011-06-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Outcome of General Meetings of Shareholders on 30 May 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110531_generalmeeting2011.htm</link><pubDate>2011-05-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - May 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110524_Conjunctuurbarometer_mei.htm</link><description>Business confidence down for the second month in a row</description><pubDate>2011-05-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110520_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2011-05-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, May 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110520_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-05-20</pubDate></item><item><title>April 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110520_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence improves further in May</description><pubDate>2011-05-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Reductions in social security contributions and alternative financing arrangements</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110517_financement_sec_sociale.htm</link><description>Study carried out in collaboration with the Federal Planning Bureau</description><pubDate>2011-05-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110516_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance slightly negative in February 2011</description><pubDate>2011-05-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Summons to the Extraordinary General Meeting of the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110512_extra_generalmeeting.htm</link><description>Regulated information distributed by the National Bank of Belgium on 12 May 2011</description><pubDate>2011-05-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110511_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly update</description><pubDate>2011-05-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Summons to the Ordinary General Meeting of the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110506_generalmeeting.htm</link><description>Regulated information distributed by the National Bank of Belgium on 6 May 2011</description><pubDate>2011-05-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110429_flashestimate.htm</link><description>Economic growth is 1 pc. in the first quarter of 2011</description><pubDate>2011-04-29</pubDate></item><item><title>La rente de rareté nucléaire belge</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110427_creg.htm</link><description>Resumé et analyse d'estimations existantes à la demande du gouvernement fédéral</description><pubDate>2011-04-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, April 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110421_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-04-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - April 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110421_Conjunctuurbarometer_april.htm</link><description>Deterioration in business confidence in April</description><pubDate>2011-04-21</pubDate></item><item><title>April 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110420_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Slight recovery in consumer confidence in April</description><pubDate>2011-04-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110419_financialaccounts.htm</link><description>Financial accounts of Belgium</description><pubDate>2011-04-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110415_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2011-04-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110415_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance recorded in January 2011</description><pubDate>2011-04-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 214</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110408_WP214.htm</link><description>Wage structure effects of international trade: Evidence from a small open economy&lt;BR&gt;Abstract</description><pubDate>2011-04-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 213</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110408_WP213.htm</link><description>Development of a financial health indicator based on companies' annual accounts</description><pubDate>2011-04-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Government accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110331_INR_government_accounts.htm</link><description>Belgium has notified the European Commission of a deficit of 4.1 % of GDP and a debt ratio of 96.8 % of GDP for the year 2010</description><pubDate>2011-03-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Results and dividend for the financial year 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110323_dividend.htm</link><description>Shareholder information</description><pubDate>2011-03-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - March 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110323_Conjunctuurbarometer_maart.htm</link><description>Very slight rise in the business barometer in March</description><pubDate>2011-03-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, March 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110318_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-03-18</pubDate></item><item><title>March 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110318_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence weakens in March</description><pubDate>2011-03-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110315_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance for year 2010 shows €1.5 billion deficit</description><pubDate>2011-03-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110310_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly update</description><pubDate>2011-03-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110309_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>With a 0,5 p.c. growth in the fourth quarter, economic activity has risen by 2,1 p.c. in the year 2010 as a whole</description><pubDate>2011-03-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 212</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110303_WP212.htm</link><description>The link between mobile telephony arrears and credit arrears</description><pubDate>2011-03-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Départ annoncé du Gouverneur Quaden</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110224_mandat.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2011-02-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - February 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110222_Conjunctuurbarometer_februari.htm</link><description>New rise in business barometer in February</description><pubDate>2011-02-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110218_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2011-02-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, February 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110218_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-02-18</pubDate></item><item><title>February 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110218_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer survey Marked improvement in consumer confidence in February</description><pubDate>2011-02-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 211</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110217_WP211.htm</link><description>Firm entry, inflation and the monetary transmission mechanism</description><pubDate>2011-02-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 210</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110217_WP210.htm</link><description>Estimating monetary policy reaction functions: A discrete choice approach</description><pubDate>2011-02-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110217_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate</description><pubDate>2011-02-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110215_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative trade balance recorded in November 2010</description><pubDate>2011-02-15</pubDate></item><item><title>National Bank launches new jobsite</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110214_jobsite.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2011-02-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110210_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly update</description><pubDate>2011-02-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 209</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110201_WP209.htm</link><description>Wage and employment effects of a wage norm: The Polish transition experience</description><pubDate>2011-02-01</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - January 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110121_Conjunctuurbarometer_januari.htm</link><description>Business confidence gains strength again in December</description><pubDate>2011-01-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Centrale des crédits aux particuliers: principales évolutions en 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110120_cr_evolution.htm</link><description>Fin 2010 la Centrale enregistrait les données de 4 963 644 personnes et 8 253 320 contrats de crédit, soit une augmentation de respectivement 1,3 % et 1,2 %.</description><pubDate>2011-01-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110119_financial_accounts.htm</link><pubDate>2011-01-19</pubDate></item><item><title>January 2011 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110119_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence falls in January for second month running</description><pubDate>2011-01-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110117_quarterlysectoraccounts.htm</link><description>Quarterly sector accounts</description><pubDate>2011-01-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110117_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance in equilibrium in October 2010</description><pubDate>2011-01-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, January 2011</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110114_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2011-01-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly update (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110112_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly update</description><pubDate>2011-01-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Communiqué de presse relatif à l'exposition "L’argent et ta vie!"</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20110107_museum.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2011-01-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Regional accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101223_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>Regional accounts</description><pubDate>2010-12-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - December 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101222_Conjunctuurbarometer_december.htm</link><description>Business confidence gains strength again in December</description><pubDate>2010-12-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Government accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101217_INR_non_profit_institutions.htm</link><pubDate>2010-12-17</pubDate></item><item><title>December 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101217_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence dips slightly in December</description><pubDate>2010-12-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, December 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101216_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-12-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101215_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Positive trade balance in the month of September 2010</description><pubDate>2010-12-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101215_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2010-12-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101208_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>In the third quarter of 2010, economic activity has risen by 0,4 p.c.</description><pubDate>2010-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>The 2009 social balance sheet</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101206_gbalans.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2010</description><pubDate>2010-12-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Results and financial structure of firms in 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101206_fResultaten.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2010</description><pubDate>2010-12-06</pubDate></item><item><title>The Belgian deposit guarantee scheme in a European perspective</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101206_edepositogarantiestelsel.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2010</description><pubDate>2010-12-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Trends in taxation of privately held assets</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101206_dbelastingen.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2010</description><pubDate>2010-12-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Implications of liberalisation for methods of setting retail gas prices in Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101206_cliberalisering.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2010</description><pubDate>2010-12-06</pubDate></item><item><title>The inflation gap between Belgium and the three main neighbouring countries and likely repercussions on competitiveness</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101206_bInflatieverschil.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2010</description><pubDate>2010-12-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Autumn 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101206_aprojecties.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2010</description><pubDate>2010-12-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - November 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101124_Conjunctuurbarometer_november.htm</link><description>Business barometer continues to rise in November</description><pubDate>2010-11-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101119_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2010-11-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, November 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101119_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-11-19</pubDate></item><item><title>November 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101119_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence continues to gain strength in November</description><pubDate>2010-11-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101116_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance in deficit in August 2010</description><pubDate>2010-11-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 208</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101104_WP208.htm</link><description>The Taylor principle and (in-)determinacy in a New Keynesian model with hiring frictions and skill loss</description><pubDate>2010-11-04</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release regarding the publication of the "Third progress report on the migration towards SEPA in Belgium"</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101028_sepa.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2010-10-29</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101027_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</description><pubDate>2010-10-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Committee for Systemic Risks and System-relevant Financial Institutions (CSRSFI) set up</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101025_crefs.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2010-10-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, October 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101022_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-10-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - October 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101022_Conjunctuurbarometer_oktober.htm</link><description>Very slight rise in business barometer in October</description><pubDate>2010-10-22</pubDate></item><item><title>ECB marks world statistics day</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101020_statistics.htm</link><description>20 October 2010: World Statistics Day</description><pubDate>2010-10-20</pubDate></item><item><title>The economic importance of the Belgian ports</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101020_havens.htm</link><description>Flash estimate 2009</description><pubDate>2010-10-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101019_financial_accounts.htm</link><pubDate>2010-10-19</pubDate></item><item><title>October 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101019_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence gathers strength in October</description><pubDate>2010-10-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly sector accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101015_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>Non-financial accounts of the institutional sectors - second quarter 2010</description><pubDate>2010-10-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101015_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Positive trade balance in July 2010 for second month in a row.</description><pubDate>2010-10-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly update (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101012_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly update</description><pubDate>2010-12-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly update (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101011_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly update</description><pubDate>2010-10-11</pubDate></item><item><title>La Cour d'appel rend deux arrêts en faveur de la Banque nationale</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20101005_appel.htm</link><description>Information réglementée diffusée par la Banque nationale de Belgique</description><pubDate>2010-10-05</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 195</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100923_WP195.htm</link><description>Trade crisis? What trade crisis?</description><pubDate>2010-09-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 194</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100923_WP194.htm</link><description>Trade with China and skill upgrading: Evidence from Belgian firm level data</description><pubDate>2010-09-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - September 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100922_Conjunctuurbarometer_september.htm</link><description>Business barometer rises again in September</description><pubDate>2010-09-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100920_financiele_rekeningen.htm</link><description>Quarterly financial accounts: 3rd quarter 2008</description><pubDate>2010-02-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, September 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100917_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-09-17</pubDate></item><item><title>September 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100917_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stable in September</description><pubDate>2010-09-17</pubDate></item><item><title>The increased volatility of electricity prices for Belgian households</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100916_eelectriciteit.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2010</description><pubDate>2010-09-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Energy markets and the macroeconomy</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100916_denergie.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2010</description><pubDate>2010-09-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Strategies and measures aimed at consolidating public finances</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100916_cstrategies.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2010</description><pubDate>2010-09-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebalancing the global economy</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100916_bherbalancering.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2010</description><pubDate>2010-09-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Lessons from the crisis: Monetary policy and financial stability</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100916_acrisis.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2010</description><pubDate>2010-09-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100915_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>First-half 2010 imports and exports up by almost 20%</description><pubDate>2010-09-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100910_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly flash</description><pubDate>2010-09-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100908_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>In the second quarter of 2010, economic activity has risen by 0,9 p.c.</description><pubDate>2010-09-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Triennial survey on the foreign exchange and derivatives markets</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100901_driejaarlijkse_enquete.htm</link><description>Results for Belgium</description><pubDate>2010-09-01</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - August 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100824_Conjunctuurbarometer_augustus.htm</link><description>Increase in business confidence confirmed in August</description><pubDate>2010-08-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100820_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2010-08-20</pubDate></item><item><title>August 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100820_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence climbs further In August</description><pubDate>2010-08-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100816_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance still slightly in the red in May 2010 as international trade recovers strongly</description><pubDate>2010-08-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100809_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly flash</description><pubDate>2010-08-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, August 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100806_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-08-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100730_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</description><pubDate>2010-09-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, July 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100723_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-07-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - July 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100723_Conjunctuurbarometer_juli.htm</link><description>Business barometer recovers in July</description><pubDate>2010-07-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Renaissance d’un bâtiment historique en plein coeur de Bruxelles</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100720_UCB.htm</link><description>Érigé en 1872, le bâtiment de l’ancienne « Union du crédit de Bruxelles » n’était plus accessible au public depuis près de 30 ans</description><pubDate>2010-07-20</pubDate></item><item><title>July 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100720_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence improves again in July</description><pubDate>2010-07-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 193</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100719_WP193.htm</link><description>Wages, labor or prices: How do firms react to shocks?</description><pubDate>2010-07-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Detailed annual accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100716_INR_detailed_annual_accounts.htm</link><description>2009: Belgian economic activity on the decline by 2,8 pc</description><pubDate>2010-07-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 192</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100715_WP192.htm</link><description>Economic importance of the Belgian ports: Flemish maritime ports, Liège port complex and the port of Brussels - Report 2008</description><pubDate>2010-07-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100715_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance falls sharply in April</description><pubDate>2010-07-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100709_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2010-07-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 191</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100630_WP191.htm</link><description>The incidence of nominal and real wage rigidity: an individual-based sectoral approach</description><pubDate>2010-06-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100629_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Quarterly Bulletin</description><pubDate>2010-06-29</pubDate></item><item><title>Versement de dividende par la Banque des règlements internationaux</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100628_bib.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2010-06-28</pubDate></item><item><title>The Constitutional Court upholds the rules on the distribution of the profits of the National Bank</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100623_zarrest.htm</link><description>Regulated information issued by the National Bank of Belgium</description><pubDate>2010-06-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - June 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100623_Conjunctuurbarometer_juni.htm</link><description>Business confidence drops in June for the second month in a row</description><pubDate>2010-06-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100621_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2010-06-21</pubDate></item><item><title>June 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100618_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer survey Consumer confidence picks up again in June</description><pubDate>2010-06-18</pubDate></item><item><title>For the ninth year running, the National Bank of Belgium has published its Financial Stability Review.</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100617_fsr.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2010-06-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Poverty in Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100616_earmoede.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2010</description><pubDate>2010-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis of the population of non-financial corporations with negative economic profitability</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100616_dpopulatie.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2010</description><pubDate>2010-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Qu’avons nous appris du Wage Dynamics Network?</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100616_cWDN.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2010</description><pubDate>2010-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Belgium’s position in world trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100616_bposities.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2010</description><pubDate>2010-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Spring 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100616_aprojectie.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2010</description><pubDate>2010-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100615_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Though slightly negative, the trade balance is picking up</description><pubDate>2010-06-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100610_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2010-06-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100609_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>In the first quarter of 2010, economic activity has risen by 0,1 p.c.</description><pubDate>2010-06-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Results of the statutory elections&lt;/ST1:DATE&gt;</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100601_algverg.htm</link><description>General Meeting of Shareholders of 31 May 2010</description><pubDate>2010-06-01</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - May 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100526_Conjunctuurbarometer_mei.htm</link><description>Business confidence deteriorates in May</description><pubDate>2010-05-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, May 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100521_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-05-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100520_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2010-05-20</pubDate></item><item><title>May 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100520_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence falls sharply in May</description><pubDate>2010-05-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100518_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Slightly negative trade balance in February 2010 in the context of a continuous recovery of international trade</description><pubDate>2010-05-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100510_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2010-05-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 190</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100507_WP190.htm</link><description>What determines euro area bank CDS spreads?</description><pubDate>2010-05-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 189</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100430_WP189.htm</link><description>Inter-industry wage differentials in EU countries: what do cross-country time-varying data add to the picture?</description><pubDate>2010-04-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100430_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</description><pubDate>2010-04-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, April 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100423_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-04-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - April 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100423_Conjunctuurbarometer_april.htm</link><description>Business barometer continues to rise in April</description><pubDate>2010-04-23</pubDate></item><item><title>April 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100421_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidences improves sharply in April</description><pubDate>2010-04-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100419_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance in the red in January 2010</description><pubDate>2010-04-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100409_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2010-04-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Government accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100331_INR_government_accounts.htm</link><description>Accounts of general government 2009: deficit of 6.0 % of GDP</description><pubDate>2010-03-31</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Regional accounts 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100326_INR_regionale_rekeningen.htm</link><description>NAI - Regional accounts 2008</description><pubDate>2010-03-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Supply and use tables (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100326_INR_gebruikstabellen.htm</link><description>Supply and use tables (F-N)</description><pubDate>2010-03-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - March 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100323_Conjunctuurbarometer_februari.htm</link><description>Business confidence picks up again in March</description><pubDate>2010-03-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100322_pressrelease.htm</link><description>Shareholder information</description><pubDate>2010-03-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, March 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100319_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-03-19</pubDate></item><item><title>March 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100319_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence picks up in March</description><pubDate>2010-03-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100315_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance shows 2.5 billion euro deficit in 2009</description><pubDate>2010-03-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100310_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>Despite a 0,3 p.c. rise in the fourth quarter, economic activity has fallen by 3,0 p.c. in the year 2009 as a whole.</description><pubDate>2010-03-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100310_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly flash</description><pubDate>2010-03-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 185</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100302_WP185.htm</link><description>Self-fulfilling liquidity dry-ups</description><pubDate>2010-02-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - February 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100223_Conjunctuurbarometer_februari.htm</link><description>Business confidence levels out in February</description><pubDate>2010-02-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, February 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100219_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-02-19</pubDate></item><item><title>February 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100219_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence remains stable in February</description><pubDate>2010-02-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100217_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2010-02-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100217_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Flash estimate (F-N)</description><pubDate>2010-02-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100217_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Foreign Trade November 2009</description><pubDate>2010-02-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100217_financiele_rekeningen.htm</link><description>Quarterly financial accounts: 3rd quarter 2008</description><pubDate>2010-02-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100209_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2010-02-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 184</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100128_WP184.htm</link><description>Discriminatory fees, coordination and investment in shared ATM network</description><pubDate>2010-01-28</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - January 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100122_Conjunctuurbarometer_januari.htm</link><description>Slight rise in the business barometer in January</description><pubDate>2010-01-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Central Individual Credit Register: Key developments in 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100121_credits_evolution.htm</link><description>Fin 2010 la Centrale enregistrait les données de 4 963 644 personnes et 8 253 320 contrats de crédit, soit une augmentation de respectivement 1,3 % et 1,2 %</description><pubDate>2011-01-20</pubDate></item><item><title>January 2010 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100120_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stabilises in January</description><pubDate>2010-01-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, January 2010</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100115_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2010-01-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100115_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance once more positive in October</description><pubDate>2010-01-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20100112_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2010-01-12</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Regional accounts (2007)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091222_INR_regionale_rekeningen_2007.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-12-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - December 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091222_Conjunctuurbarometer_december.htm</link><description>Slight rise in the business barometer in December</description><pubDate>2009-12-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, December 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091218_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-12-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Satellite account of non-profit institutions</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091218_INR.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-12-18</pubDate></item><item><title>December 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091218_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence drops in December</description><pubDate>2009-12-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091215_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance marginally positive in September 2009</description><pubDate>2009-12-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic effects of the Services Directive in Belgium: an ex ante assessment</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091215_dienstenrichtilijn.htm</link><description>Study carried out in collaboration with the Federal Planning Bureau</description><pubDate>2009-12-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091209_quarterlyaggregates.htm</link><description>In the third quarter of 2009, economic activity has risen by 0,5 p.c.</description><pubDate>2009-12-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091208_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2009-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>The 2008 social balance sheet</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091207_esocbal.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2009</description><pubDate>2009-12-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Trend in the financial structure and results of firms in 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091207_dfin.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2009</description><pubDate>2009-12-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Methodology or pricing: how can the greater volatility of consumer gas and electricity prices in Belgium be explained?</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091207_celec.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2009</description><pubDate>2009-12-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Pension system reforms in the EU15 countries</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091207_bpensioen.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2009</description><pubDate>2009-12-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Autumn 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091207_aproj.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2009</description><pubDate>2009-12-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - November 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091124_Conjunctuurbarometer_november.htm</link><description>Business confidence strengthens sharply again in November</description><pubDate>2009-11-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, September 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091120_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-11-20</pubDate></item><item><title>November 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091120_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence shows renewed growth in November</description><pubDate>2009-11-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 183</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091119_WP183.htm</link><description>The margins of labour cost adjustment: Survey evidence from European firms</description><pubDate>2009-11-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 182</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091119_WP182.htm</link><description>Downward nominal and real wage rigidity: Survey evidence from European firms</description><pubDate>2009-11-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091117_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Report Quarterly update 2009</description><pubDate>2009-11-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091116_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balace still in deficit in August 2009</description><pubDate>2009-11-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 181</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091113_WP181.htm</link><description>Empirical evidence on the aggregate effects of anticipated and unanticipated US tax policy shocks</description><pubDate>2009-11-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Estimate of the dividend for the 2009 financial year</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091109_raming_div.htm</link><description>Regulated information communicated by the National Bank of Belgium</description><pubDate>2009-11-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091109_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2009-11-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091030_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>Economic growth positive, at 0,5 p.c. , in the third quarter of 2009</description><pubDate>2009-10-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 180</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091026_WP180.htm</link><description>Inter-industry wage differentials: How much does rent sharing matter?</description><pubDate>2009-10-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 179</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091023_WP179.htm</link><description>Staying, dropping, or switching: the impacts of bank mergers on small firms</description><pubDate>2009-10-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 178</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091023_WP178.htm</link><description>Optimal monetary policy and firm entry</description><pubDate>2009-10-23</pubDate></item><item><title>The economic importance of the Belgian ports</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091022_havens.htm</link><description>Flash estimate 2008</description><pubDate>2009-10-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091022_financiele_rekeningen.htm</link><description>Quarterly financial accounts: 2nd quarter 2008</description><pubDate>2009-10-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - October 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091022_Conjunctuurbarometer_oktober.htm</link><description>Business confidence gains further strength in October</description><pubDate>2009-10-22</pubDate></item><item><title>October 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091020_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Little change in consumer confidence in October</description><pubDate>2009-10-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 177</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091016_WP177.htm</link><description>Incentives and tranche retention in securitisation: a screening model&lt;BR&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-10-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091016_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance positive in July 2009</description><pubDate>2009-10-16</pubDate></item><item><title>New organization of the supervision of credit institutions and of financial markets and services</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091013_CBFA_NBB.htm</link><description>Press Release of the CBFA and the National Bank of Belgium</description><pubDate>2009-10-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 176</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091008_WP176.htm</link><description>On the origins of the BIS macro-prudential approach to financial stability:&lt;BR&gt;Alexandre Lamfalussy and financial fragility&lt;BR&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-10-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20091007_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2009-09-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Detailed annual accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090930_INR.htm</link><description>In the second quarter of 2009, economic activity has fallen by 0,3 p.c.</description><pubDate>2009-09-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - September 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090923_Conjunctuurbarometer_september.htm</link><description>September brings very slight rise in business barometer</description><pubDate>2009-09-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, September 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090918_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-09-18</pubDate></item><item><title>September 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090918_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stabilises in September</description><pubDate>2009-09-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Belgian mortgage lending from a European perspective</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090917_emarkt.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2009</description><pubDate>2009-09-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Towards more environmental taxes?</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090917_dmilieu.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2009</description><pubDate>2009-09-17</pubDate></item><item><title>The economic recovery plans</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090917_crelance.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2009</description><pubDate>2009-09-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Regulation and competition in the distribution sector in Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090917_bregulation.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2009</description><pubDate>2009-09-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Deflation, a demon from the distant past or a real danger in 2009?</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090917_adeflation.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2009</description><pubDate>2009-09-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090916_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Monthly Flash</description><pubDate>2009-08-19</pubDate></item><item><title>La parution du rapport de synthèse du Groupe de travail "Crédits aux entreprises"</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090911_rapportCreditsEntreprises.htm</link><description>La crise financière et économique que traverse l’économie mondiale a soulevé de l’inquiétude quant à l’ampleur de ses répercussions sur la disponibilité du crédit pour le secteur privé</description><pubDate>2009-09-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 175</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090910_WP175.htm</link><description>Micro data on nominal rigidity, inflation persistence and optimal monetary policy</description><pubDate>2009-09-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090909_INR+-+Kwartaalaggregaten.htm</link><description>In the second quarter of 2009, economic activity has fallen by 0,3 p.c.</description><pubDate>2009-09-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 174</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090827_WP174.htm</link><description>How are firms' wages and prices linked: survey evidence in Europe</description><pubDate>2009-08-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - August 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090825_Conjunctuurbarometer_augustus.htm</link><description>Business barometer rises yet again in August</description><pubDate>2009-08-25</pubDate></item><item><title>August 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090820_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Improvement in consumer confidence picks up speed in August</description><pubDate>2009-08-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Quarterly update 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090819_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Report Quarterly update 2009</description><pubDate>2009-08-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090814_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>May 2009 brings another small trade surplus</description><pubDate>2009-08-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - June 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090810_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Report June 2009</description><pubDate>2009-08-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, August 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090807_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-08-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090731_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>In the second quarter of 2009, economic activity has fallen by 0,4 p.c.</description><pubDate>2009-07-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 173</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090727_WP173.htm</link><description>Evaluating a monetary business cycle model with unemployment for the euro area</description><pubDate>2009-07-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090724_financiele_rekeningen.htm</link><description>Quarterly financial accounts: 1st quarter 2008</description><pubDate>2009-07-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - July 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090723_Conjunctuurbarometer_juli.htm</link><description>Business barometer rises again in july</description><pubDate>2009-07-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Regulated information communicated by the National Bank of Belgium: New reserve and dividend policy</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090722_dividendbeleid.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-07-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Actualisation au 30 juin 2009 des statistiques de la Centrale des crédits aux particuliers</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090722_CKP.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-07-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, July 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090717_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-07-17</pubDate></item><item><title>July 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090717_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer survey Consumer confidence continues to rise cautiously in July</description><pubDate>2009-07-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090715_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Slightly positive trade balance in April 2009</description><pubDate>2009-07-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 172</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090714_WP172.htm</link><description>Economic importance of the Belgian ports: Flemish maritime ports, Liège port complex and the port of Brussels – Report 2007</description><pubDate>2009-07-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - May 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090710_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Report May 2009</description><pubDate>2009-07-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 171</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090703_WP171.htm</link><description>A global assessment of the degree of price stickiness - results from the NBB business survey&lt;BR&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-07-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 170</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090703_WP170.htm</link><description>Analysis of business demography using Markov chains - An application to Belgian data</description><pubDate>2009-07-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 169</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090702_WP169.htm</link><description>The use of fixed-term contracts and the labour adjustment in Belgium</description><pubDate>2009-07-02</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 168</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090702_WP168.htm</link><description>Model misspecification, learning and the exchange rate disconnect puzzle</description><pubDate>2009-07-02</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 167</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090625_WP167.htm</link><description>Back to the basics in banking? A micro-analysis of banking system stability</description><pubDate>2009-06-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 166</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090625_WP166.htm</link><description>Input-output connections between sectors and optimal monetary policy</description><pubDate>2009-06-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090625_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2009-06-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - June 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090623_Conjunctuurbarometer_juni.htm</link><description>The business barometer continues to recover in June</description><pubDate>2009-06-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, June 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090619_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-06-19</pubDate></item><item><title>June 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090619_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence recovers somewhat further in june</description><pubDate>2009-06-19</pubDate></item><item><title>For the eighth year running, the National Bank of Belgium has published its Financial Stability Review.</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090617_fsr.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-06-17</pubDate></item><item><title>New website launched: nbbmuseum.be</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090616_museum.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090616_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance in virtual equilibrium in March 2009</description><pubDate>2009-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 165</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090611_WP165.htm</link><description>Understanding inflation dynamics: Where do we stand?</description><pubDate>2009-06-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies - Monthly Flash (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090610_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>&lt;SPAN&gt;Monthly flash (F-N)</description><pubDate>2009-06-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090610_INR+-+Kwartaalaggregaten.htm</link><description>In the first quarter of 2009, economic activity has fallen by 1,7 p.c.</description><pubDate>2009-06-10</pubDate></item><item><title>The Belgian migration towards the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090610_dsepa.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2009</description><pubDate>2009-06-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Public employment in Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090610_cwerk.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2009</description><pubDate>2009-06-10</pubDate></item><item><title>The National Bank of Belgium’s new business survey indicator</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090610_bconjunctuur.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2009</description><pubDate>2009-06-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Spring 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090610_aprojecties.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2009</description><pubDate>2009-06-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to non financial companies</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090526_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Quarterly update</description><pubDate>2009-05-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - May 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090526_Conjunctuurbarometer_mei.htm</link><description>Business confidence improves again in May</description><pubDate>2009-05-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, May 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090522_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-05-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090520_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>New slight fall of the trade balance deficit in February 2009</description><pubDate>2009-05-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 164</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090519_WP164.htm</link><description>Inflation dynamics with labour market matching: assessing alternative specifications</description><pubDate>2009-05-19</pubDate></item><item><title>May 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090519_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence picks up in May for the second month in a row</description><pubDate>2009-05-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to companies - March 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090508_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Report March 2009</description><pubDate>2009-05-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 163</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090430_WP163.htm</link><description>The young Lamfalussy: an empirical and policy-oriented growth theorist</description><pubDate>2009-04-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - National accounts - Quarterly accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090429_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-04-29</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly accounts (F-N) - first quarter of 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090429_NAI_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>In the first quarter of 2009, economic activity has fallen by 1,6 p.c. Despite a sharp decline of 1,7 p.c. in the fourth quarter,economic activity has risen by 1,0 p.c. in the year 2008 as a whole.</description><pubDate>2009-04-29</pubDate></item><item><title>Décès du Gouverneur honoraire Baron Jean Godeaux</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090429_godeaux.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-04-29</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - National accounts - First estimate of the annual accounts (F - N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090429_estimate_annual_accounts.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-04-29</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, April 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090424_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-04-24</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Regional accounts (2006-2007)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090424_INR_regionale_rekeningen_2007.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-04-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090424_financial_accounts.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-04-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - April 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090423_Conjunctuurbarometer_april.htm</link><description>Slight recovery in the business barometer in April</description><pubDate>2009-04-23</pubDate></item><item><title>April 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090421_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence improves slightly in April</description><pubDate>2009-04-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090415_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade deficit shrinks in January 2009</description><pubDate>2009-04-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 162</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090409_WP162.htm</link><description>Labour flows in Belgium</description><pubDate>2009-04-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatory for credit to companies - February 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090409_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Report February 2009</description><pubDate>2009-04-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Government accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090331_INR_government_accounts.htm</link><description>Government accounts (F-N) Accounts of general government 2008: deficit of 1.2 % of GDP.</description><pubDate>2009-03-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Results of the statutory elections&lt;/ST1:DATE&gt;</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090331_algverg.htm</link><pubDate>2009-03-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Candidats pour les mandats vacants de régent et censeur&lt;/ST1:DATE&gt;</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090327_vervangingThillo.htm</link><pubDate>2009-03-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Regulated information communicated by the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090325_provisions.htm</link><description>Treatment of the provisions for contingencies and for future exchange losses under the future reserve and dividend policy&lt;BR&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-03-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - March 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090324_Conjunctuurbarometer_maart.htm</link><description>Business barometer picks up slightly in March</description><pubDate>2009-03-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 161</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090323_WP161.htm</link><description>Trade, wages and productivity</description><pubDate>2009-03-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, March 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090320_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-03-20</pubDate></item><item><title>March 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090319_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stabilises at low level in March</description><pubDate>2009-03-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090316_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance 2008 shows 10 billion euros deficit</description><pubDate>2009-03-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Observatoire du crédit aux sociétés  - janvier 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090312_observatorium_credit.htm</link><description>Report January 2009</description><pubDate>2009-03-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Working paper 160</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090311_WP160.htm</link><description>The Belgian iron and steel industry in the international context</description><pubDate>2009-03-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 159</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090311_WP159.htm</link><description>Rigid labour compensation and flexible employment? Firm-level evidence with regard to productivity for Belgium</description><pubDate>2009-03-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N) (2008-IV)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090311_INR_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>Despite a 1,7 p.c. fall in the fourth quarter, economic activity has risen by 1,1 p.c. in the year 2008 as a whole.</description><pubDate>2009-03-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 158</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090310_WP158.htm</link><description>Economic Importance of air transport and airport activities in Belgium</description><pubDate>2009-03-10</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release regarding the publication of the "Second progress report on the migration towards SEPA in Belgium"</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090306_sepa.htm</link><description>Press release</description><pubDate>2009-03-06</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - February 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090224_Conjunctuurbarometer_februari.htm</link><description>New setback for business confidence in February</description><pubDate>2009-02-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, February 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090220_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-02-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 157</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090219_WP157.htm</link><description>Sequential bargaining in a New Keynesian model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage negotiation</description><pubDate>2009-02-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 156</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090219_WP156.htm</link><description>Understanding sectoral differences in downward real wage rigidity: workforce composition, institutions, technology and competition</description><pubDate>2009-02-19</pubDate></item><item><title>February 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090219_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence drops again in february</description><pubDate>2009-02-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Mise en place d'un groupe de travail sur l'évolution des crédits accordés aux particuliers et aux entreprises</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090218_werkgroep.htm</link><description>Communiqué de presse</description><pubDate>2009-02-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Results and dividend for the financial year 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090218_dividend.htm</link><description>Results and dividend for the financial year 2008</description><pubDate>2009-02-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090213_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance in deficit again in November 2008</description><pubDate>2009-02-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N) (2008-IV)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090211_INR_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>In the fourth quarter of 2008, economic activity has fallen by 1,3 p.c.</description><pubDate>2009-02-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - January 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090123_Conjunctuurbarometer_januari.htm</link><description>Business confidence improves slightly in January</description><pubDate>2009-01-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 155</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090121_WP155.htm</link><description>Fiscal sustainability  and policy implications for the euro area</description><pubDate>2009-01-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Central Individual Credit Register: Key developments in 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090121_CKP.htm</link><description>Communiqué de presse</description><pubDate>2009-01-21</pubDate></item><item><title>January 2009 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090120_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence recovers partially in January</description><pubDate>2009-01-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, January 2009</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090116_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2009-01-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20090116_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance still showed deficit in October 2008</description><pubDate>2009-01-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - December 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081222_Conjunctuurbarometer_november.htm</link><description>Business confidence deteriorates sharply again in December</description><pubDate>2008-12-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, December 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081219_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-12-19</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Regional accounts 2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081219_INR_regionale_rekeningen_2006.htm</link><description>NAI - Regional accounts 2006</description><pubDate>2008-12-19</pubDate></item><item><title>December 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081219_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence falls further in December</description><pubDate>2008-12-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081218_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2008-12-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081215_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance still showed a deficit in September 2008</description><pubDate>2008-12-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 154</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081209_WP154.htm</link><description>Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan</description><pubDate>2008-12-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 153</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081209_WP153.htm</link><description>Forecast with judgment and models</description><pubDate>2008-12-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 152</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081209_WP152.htm</link><description>Rent-sharing under different bargaining regimes: Evidence from linked employer-employee data</description><pubDate>2008-12-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Regulated information communicated by the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081208_law.htm</link><description>Preliminary draft of a law amending the financial provisions of the National Bank of Belgium's Organic Act of 22 February 1998</description><pubDate>2008-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>The 2007 social balance sheet</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081208_EcoReview_IV_f.htm</link><description>The 2007 social balance sheet</description><pubDate>2008-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Trend in the financial structure and results of firms in 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081208_EcoReview_IV_e.htm</link><description>Trend in the financial structure and results of firms in 2007</description><pubDate>2008-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Innovation and entrepreneurship: structural determinants of competitiveness</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081208_EcoReview_IV_d.htm</link><description>Innovation and entrepreneurship: structural determinants of competitiveness</description><pubDate>2008-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Review of the IMF's lending framework</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081208_EcoReview_IV_c.htm</link><description>Review of the IMF's lending framework</description><pubDate>2008-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Ten years of monetary union in retrospect</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081208_EcoReview_IV_b.htm</link><description>Ten years of monetary union in retrospect</description><pubDate>2008-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Autumn 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081208_EcoReview_IV_a.htm</link><description>Economic projections for Belgium - Autumn 2008</description><pubDate>2008-12-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Announcement of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081205_mededeling.htm</link><description>The Bank has taken note of the Government's decision to approve a draft law amending the financial provisions of its Organic Law.</description><pubDate>2008-12-05</pubDate></item><item><title>Regulated information communicated by the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081204_information.htm</link><description>Preliminary draft of a law amending the financial provisions of the National Bank of Belgium's Organic Act of 22 February 1998</description><pubDate>2008-12-04</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N) (2008-III)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081203_INR_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N) (2008-III)</description><pubDate>2008-12-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomb alert at the National Bank of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081125_alarm.htm</link><description>Bomb alert at the National Bank of Belgium</description><pubDate>2008-11-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081124_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Commercial balance sheet shows large deficit in August 2008</description><pubDate>2008-11-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - November 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081124_Conjunctuurbarometer_november.htm</link><description>Business confidence drops sharply again in November</description><pubDate>2008-11-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, November 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081121_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-11-21</pubDate></item><item><title>November 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081120_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence continues to wane in November</description><pubDate>2008-11-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly accounts (F-N) (2008-III)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081031_INR_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Quarterly accounts (F-N) (2008-III)</description><pubDate>2008-10-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, October 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081024_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-10-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - October 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081023_Conjunctuurbarometer_oktober.htm</link><description>Business confidence declines further in October</description><pubDate>2008-10-23</pubDate></item><item><title>October 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081021_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence weakens sharply in October</description><pubDate>2008-10-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Utilisation croissante du virement européen</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081017_overschrijving.htm</link><description>Communiqué de presse</description><pubDate>2008-10-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade July 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081015_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance still in deficit in July 2008</description><pubDate>2008-10-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Reaction by the Governor of the National Bank of Belgium to press comments regarding KBC</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20081009_KBC.htm</link><description>Press Release</description><pubDate>2008-10-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Detailed annual accounts (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080930_INR_detailed_annual_accounts.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Detailed annual accounts (F-N)</description><pubDate>2008-09-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - September 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080923_Conjunctuurbarometer_september.htm</link><description>Business surveys Sharp decline in business confidence in September</description><pubDate>2008-09-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 140</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080922_WP140.htm</link><description>Export destinations and learning-by-exporting: Evidence from Belgium</description><pubDate>2008-09-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 139</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080922_WP139.htm</link><description>Exporters and credit constraints. A firm-level approach</description><pubDate>2008-09-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, September 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080919_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-09-19</pubDate></item><item><title>September 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080919_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer survey Consumer confidence improves in September</description><pubDate>2008-09-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Interregional transfers and solidarity mechanisms via the government budget</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080918_EcoReview_III_d.htm</link><description>Interregional transfers and solidarity mechanisms via the government budget</description><pubDate>2008-09-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Results of the Bank’s survey of wage-setting in Belgian firms</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080918_EcoReview_III_b.htm</link><description>Results of the Bank’s survey of wage-setting in Belgian firms</description><pubDate>2008-09-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Macroeconomic and fiscal impact of the risk capital allowance</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080918_EcoReview_III_a.htm</link><description>Macroeconomic and fiscal impact of the risk capital allowance</description><pubDate>2008-09-18</pubDate></item><item><title>La Banque nationale de Belgique: l'évolution de son personnel</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080915_NBB.htm</link><description>Press Release</description><pubDate>2008-09-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade First half of 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080915_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>First half of 2008: imports rise more strongly than exports</description><pubDate>2008-09-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Communiqué de marché</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080915_AH.htm</link><description>Publication de la structure du capital et de l'actionnariat de la Banque nationale de Belgique</description><pubDate>2008-09-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 138</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080912_WP138.htm</link><description>The efficiency frontier as a method for gauging the performance of public expenditure: a Belgian case study</description><pubDate>2008-09-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N) (2008-II)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080903_INR_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N) (2008-II)</description><pubDate>2008-09-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - August 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080822_Conjunctuurbarometer_augustus.htm</link><description>Business confidence picks up in August</description><pubDate>2008-08-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 137</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080820_WP137.htm</link><description>Agency problems in structured finance - a case study of European CLOs</description><pubDate>2008-08-26</pubDate></item><item><title>August 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080820_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence recovers slightly in August</description><pubDate>2008-08-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 136</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080819_WP136.htm</link><description>Multivariate Structural Time Series models with dual cycles. Implications for measurement of output gap and potential growth</description><pubDate>2008-08-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 135</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080818_WP135.htm</link><description>Imperfect exchange rate pass-through: the role of distribution services and variable demand elasticity</description><pubDate>2008-08-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade May 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080814_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance still in deficit in May 2008</description><pubDate>2008-08-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, August 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080808_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-08-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly accounts (F-N) (2008-II)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080730_INR_quarterlyaccounts.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Quarterly accounts (F-N) (2008-II)</description><pubDate>2008-07-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080724_financiele_rekeningen.htm</link><description>Quarterly financial accounts: 1st quarter 2008</description><pubDate>2008-07-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - July 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080724_Conjunctuurbarometer_juli.htm</link><description>Business barometer falls back again in July</description><pubDate>2008-07-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Impact macroéconomique et budgétaire de la déduction fiscale pour capital à risque</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080723_belastingaftrek.htm</link><description>Étude de la Banque nationale de Belgique à la demande du gouvernement fédéral</description><pubDate>2008-07-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, July 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080718_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-07-18</pubDate></item><item><title>July 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080718_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence further eroded in july</description><pubDate>2008-07-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade April 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080715_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance still showed deficit in April 2008</description><pubDate>2008-07-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080627_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2008-06-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 134</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080626_WP134.htm</link><description>Economic importance of the Belgian ports: Flemish maritime ports, Liège port complex and the port of Brussels – Report 2006</description><pubDate>2008-06-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - June 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080623_Conjunctuurbarometer_juni.htm</link><description>Sharp fall in business confidence in June</description><pubDate>2008-06-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, June 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080620_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-06-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial Stability Review 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080619_FSR2008.htm</link><description>For the seventh year running, the Bank National of Belgium has published its Financial Stability Review.</description><pubDate>2008-06-19</pubDate></item><item><title>July 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080619_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Further decline in consumer confidence in June</description><pubDate>2008-06-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 133</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080617_WP133.htm</link><description>Short-term forecasting of GDP using large monthly datasets - A pseudo real-time forecast evaluation exercise</description><pubDate>2008-06-17</pubDate></item><item><title>The National Bank renews its website</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080616_website.htm</link><description>Press Release</description><pubDate>2008-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade March 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080616_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance still showed deficit in March 2008</description><pubDate>2008-06-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign financial transactions of Belgian non-financial sectors</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080613_EcoReview_II_e.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2008</description><pubDate>2008-06-13</pubDate></item><item><title>The use and effectiveness of fiscal rules and independent fiscal institutions</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080613_EcoReview_II_d.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2008</description><pubDate>2008-06-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Gross job flows and firms’ international activities</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080613_EcoReview_II_c.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2008</description><pubDate>2008-06-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Inflation and indexation in Belgium: causes and possible effects of the current acceleration in inflation</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080613_EcoReview_II_b.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2008</description><pubDate>2008-06-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Spring 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080613_EcoReview_II_a.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2008</description><pubDate>2008-06-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080604_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>Press release - NAI - Quarterly aggregates (F-N)</description><pubDate>2008-06-04</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Satellite account of non-profit institutions</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080602_INR_vzw.htm</link><description>NAI - Satellite account of non-profit institutions</description><pubDate>2008-06-02</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, May 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080523_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-05-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - May 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080523_Conjunctuurbarometer_mei.htm</link><description>Partial recovery of business confidence in May</description><pubDate>2008-05-23</pubDate></item><item><title>May 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080520_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Further fall in consumer confidence in May</description><pubDate>2008-05-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade February 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080519_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Again trade deficit in February 2008</description><pubDate>2008-05-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, April 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080425_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-04-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - April 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080423_Conjunctuurbarometer_april.htm</link><description>Business confidence drops sharply in April</description><pubDate>2008-04-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade November 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080415_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Negative balance in January 2008 due to non-EU exports</description><pubDate>2008-04-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 132</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080407_WP132.htm</link><description>Searching for additional sources of inflation persistence: the micro-price panel data approach</description><pubDate>2008-04-07</pubDate></item><item><title>General Meeting of Shareholders of &lt;ST1:DATE Month="3" Day="26" Year="2007" w:st="on"&gt;31 March 2008&lt;/ST1:DATE&gt;</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080401_algverg.htm</link><description>General Meeting of Shareholders of &lt;ST1:DATE Month="3" Day="26" Year="2007" w:st="on"&gt;31 March 2008&lt;/ST1:DATE&gt;&lt;/ST1:DATE&gt;</description><pubDate>2008-04-01</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Government accounts 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080331_INR_RekeningenOverheid.htm</link><description>General government accounts for 2007: deficit of 0.2 % of GDP</description><pubDate>2008-03-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, March 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080328_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-03-28</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 131</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080327_WP131.htm</link><description>Do survey indicators let us see the business cycle? A frequency decomposition</description><pubDate>2008-03-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Regional Accounts 1995 - 2005/2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080326_INR_Regionale+rekeningen.htm</link><description>Regionalkonten 1995 - 2005/2006</description><pubDate>2008-03-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - March 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080326_Conjunctuurbarometer_maart.htm</link><description>Business confidence grows in March</description><pubDate>2008-03-26</pubDate></item><item><title>March 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080319_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stabilises in March</description><pubDate>2008-03-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 130</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080317_WP130.htm</link><description>Job creation, job destruction and firms' international trade involvement</description><pubDate>2008-03-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Corporate Report 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080314_ondernemingsverslag.htm</link><description>Corporate Report 2007</description><pubDate>2008-03-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade November 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080314_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance slightly positive in 2007</description><pubDate>2008-03-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 129</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080313_WP129.htm</link><description>Estimation of monetary policy preferences in a forward-looking model:&lt;BR&gt;a Bayesian approach</description><pubDate>2008-03-13</pubDate></item><item><title>La Banque nationale et les intérêts notionnels</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080304_notionele_intresten.htm</link><description>La législation relative aux intérêts notionnels est applicable à la BNB</description><pubDate>2008-03-04</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Flash estimate</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080227_INR_flash_estimate.htm</link><description>NAI - Flash estimate</description><pubDate>2008-02-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, February 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080222_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-02-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - February 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080222_Conjunctuurbarometer_februari.htm</link><description>Business confidence picks up in February</description><pubDate>2008-02-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Dividend over the financial year 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080220_dividend.htm</link><description>The National Bank of Belgium informs its shareholders that the net dividend over the financial year 2007 has been fixed at 54 EUR.</description><pubDate>2008-02-20</pubDate></item><item><title>February 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080219_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Rise in consumer confidence in February</description><pubDate>2008-02-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade November 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080215_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance showed deficit in November 2007</description><pubDate>2008-02-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 128</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080213_WP128.htm</link><description>Exports and productivity – comparable evidence for 14 countries</description><pubDate>2008-02-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 127</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080131_WP127.htm</link><description>How do firms adjust their wage bill in Belgium? A decomposition along the intensive and extensive margins</description><pubDate>2008-01-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Le démarrage du SEPA</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080128_SEPA.htm</link><description>Le démarrage du SEPA</description><pubDate>2008-01-28</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 126</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080125_WP126.htm</link><description>Some evidence on late bidding in eBay auctions</description><pubDate>2008-01-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - January 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080124_Conjunctuurbarometer_januari.htm</link><description>Business confidence recovers slightly in January</description><pubDate>2008-01-24</pubDate></item><item><title>January 2008 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080122_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>January 2008 Consumer survey</description><pubDate>2008-01-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Regional Accounts 2005: first results based upon the definitive method</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080118_INR_Regionale+rekeningen.htm</link><description>Regional Accounts 2005: first results based upon the definitive method</description><pubDate>2008-01-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Regional Accounts 2005: first results based upon the definitive method</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080118_INR_Regionale+rekeningen.htm</link><description>Regional Accounts 2005: first results based upon the definitive method</description><pubDate>2008-01-18</pubDate></item><item><title>La Centrale des crédits aux particuliers: principales évolutions en 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080116_CKP.htm</link><description>Communiqué de presse</description><pubDate>2008-01-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade October 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080115_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance in equilibrium in October 2007</description><pubDate>2008-01-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, January 2008</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080111_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2008-01-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 125</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080109_WP125.htm</link><description>Economic importance of Belgian transport logistics</description><pubDate>2008-01-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20080107_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2008-01-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 124</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071221_WP124.htm</link><description>Downward wage rigidity for different workers and firms: an evaluation for Belgium using the IWFP procedure</description><pubDate>2007-12-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, December 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071221_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-12-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - December 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071220_Conjunctuurbarometer_december.htm</link><description>Decline in business confidence in December</description><pubDate>2007-12-20</pubDate></item><item><title>December 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071219_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence recovers in December</description><pubDate>2007-12-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade September 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071214_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Positif trade balance in September 2007</description><pubDate>2007-12-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 123</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071213_WP123.htm</link><description>Failure prediction models: performance, disagreements, and internal rating systems</description><pubDate>2007-12-13</pubDate></item><item><title>The determinants of third pillar pension savings</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071213_EcoReview_III_f.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2007</description><pubDate>2007-12-13</pubDate></item><item><title>The social balance sheet 2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071213_EcoReview_III_e.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2007</description><pubDate>2007-12-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Trend in the financial structure and results of firms in 2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071213_EcoReview_III_d.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2007</description><pubDate>2007-12-13</pubDate></item><item><title>The liquidity management of the Eurosystem during the period of financial turmoil</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071213_EcoReview_III_c.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2007</description><pubDate>2007-12-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Interest rate policy versus monetary base policy: implications for the central bank balance sheet</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071213_EcoReview_III_b.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2007</description><pubDate>2007-12-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium - Autumn 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071213_EcoReview_III_a.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, December 2007</description><pubDate>2007-12-13</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Quarterly accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071212_INR_kwartaal.htm</link><description>NAI - Quarterly accounts</description><pubDate>2007-12-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, November 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071123_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-11-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - November 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071122_Conjunctuurbarometer_november.htm</link><description>Business climate improves in November</description><pubDate>2007-11-22</pubDate></item><item><title>November 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071120_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Sharp fall in consumer confidence in November</description><pubDate>2007-11-20</pubDate></item><item><title>The National Bank of Belgium and TARGET2</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071119_target2.htm</link><description>The Eurosystem announces the launch on November 19th, 2007 of the single technical platform TARGET2 with the connection of the first migration group composed of the national central banks and the respective TARGET user communities in Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta and Slovenia.</description><pubDate>2007-11-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 122</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071116_WP122.htm</link><description>The gas chain: influence of its specificities on the liberalisation process</description><pubDate>2007-11-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 121</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071115_WP121.htm</link><description>Dynamic order submission strategies with competition between a dealer market and a crossing network</description><pubDate>2007-11-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade August 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071115_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade deficit in August 2007</description><pubDate>2007-11-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 120</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071031_WP120.htm</link><description>Monitoring pro-cyclicality under the capital requirements directive: preliminary concepts for developing a framework</description><pubDate>2007-10-31</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Quarterly accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071031_INR_kwartaal.htm</link><description>NAI - Quarterly accounts</description><pubDate>2007-10-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, October 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071026_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-10-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - October 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071024_Conjunctuurbarometer_oktober.htm</link><description>Business confidence slips back further in october</description><pubDate>2007-10-24</pubDate></item><item><title>October 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071019_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Slight rise in consumer confidence in October</description><pubDate>2007-10-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 119</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071018_WP119.htm</link><description>The determinants of stock and bond return comovements</description><pubDate>2007-10-18</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade July 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071015_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Strong growth in imports</description><pubDate>2007-10-15</pubDate></item><item><title>The economic importance of the Belgian ports</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20071009_zeehaven.htm</link><description>Flash estimate 2006</description><pubDate>2007-10-09</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Detailled annual accounts 2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070928_INR_Rekeningen_tabellen.htm</link><description>NAI - Detailled annual accounts 2006</description><pubDate>2007-09-28</pubDate></item><item><title>Les pièces de 1 et 2 eurocents</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070926_1-2eurocent.htm</link><description>Communiqué de presse</description><pubDate>2007-09-26</pubDate></item><item><title>Triennial survey on the foreign exchange and derivatives markets</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070925_driejaarlijkse_enquete.htm</link><description>Results for Belgium</description><pubDate>2007-09-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - September 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070924_Conjunctuurbarometer_september.htm</link><description>Business confidence falls in september</description><pubDate>2007-09-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, September 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070921_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-09-21</pubDate></item><item><title>September 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070920_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stabilises in September</description><pubDate>2007-09-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade juni 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070914+buitenlandse+handel+juni+2007.htm</link><description>Reduction of trade surplus in the first half of 2007</description><pubDate>2007-09-14</pubDate></item><item><title>The sustainability of public finances in the context of population ageing</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070913_EcoReview_II_e.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2007</description><pubDate>2007-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Belgian corporate finance in a European perspective</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070913_EcoReview_II_d.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2007</description><pubDate>2007-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>The Single Euro Payments Area: SEPA</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070913_EcoReview_II_c.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2007</description><pubDate>2007-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>Jüngste Entwicklung der Rohstoffpreise: Gründe und Folgen</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070913_EcoReview_II_b.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2007</description><pubDate>2007-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>The euro, 5 years later: what has happened to prices?</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070913_EcoReview_II_a.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, September 2007</description><pubDate>2007-09-13</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Quarterly accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070912_INR_kwartaal.htm</link><description>NAI - Quarterly accounts</description><pubDate>2007-09-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 118</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070907_WP118.htm</link><description>The performance of credit rating systems in the assessment of collateral used in Eurosystem monetary policy operations</description><pubDate>2007-09-07</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, August 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070829_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions.</description><pubDate>2007-08-29</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - August 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070823_Conjunctuurbarometer_juli.htm</link><description>Business confidence slightly down in August</description><pubDate>2007-08-23</pubDate></item><item><title>August 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070821_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence weakens in August</description><pubDate>2007-08-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade May 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070814+buitenlandse+handel+mei+2007.htm</link><description>Positive trade balance in May 2007</description><pubDate>2007-08-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 117</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070803_WP117.htm</link><description>Can excess liquidity signal an asset price boom?</description><pubDate>2007-08-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, August 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070803_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions.</description><pubDate>2007-08-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070727_financiele_rekeningen.htm</link><description>Quarterly financial accounts: 1st quarter 2007</description><pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Quarterly accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070725_INR_kwartaal.htm</link><description>NAI - Quarterly accounts</description><pubDate>2007-07-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - July 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070724_Conjunctuurbarometer_juli.htm</link><description>Business confidence remains robust in July</description><pubDate>2007-07-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, July 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070720_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-07-20</pubDate></item><item><title>July 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070719_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Slight drop in consumer confidence in July</description><pubDate>2007-07-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade April 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070716+buitenlandse+handel+april+2007.htm</link><description>Positive trade balance in April 2007</description><pubDate>2007-07-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070629_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2007-06-29</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 116</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070628_WP116.htm</link><description>Temporal Distribution of Price Changes: Staggering in the Large and Synchronization in the Small</description><pubDate>2007-06-28</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, June 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070622_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-06-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - June 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070622_Conjunctuurbarometer_juni.htm</link><description>Business survey barometer on the rise in june</description><pubDate>2007-06-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial Stability Review 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070621_FSR.htm</link><description>In addition to the traditional overview of recent developments in the Belgian financial sector, the Financial Stability Review (FSR) contains a part devoted to an analysis of the resilience of financial infrastructures.</description><pubDate>2007-06-21</pubDate></item><item><title>June 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070619_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stabilises in June</description><pubDate>2007-06-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Foreign Trade march 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070615+buitenlandse+handel+maart+2007.htm</link><description>Positive trade balance in march 2007</description><pubDate>2007-06-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Recent trends in corporate income tax</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070614_EcoReview_I_d.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2007</description><pubDate>2007-06-14</pubDate></item><item><title>The flattening of the yield curve: causes and economic policy implications</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070614_EcoReview_I_c.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2007</description><pubDate>2007-06-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Direct investment and Belgium’s attractiveness</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070614_EcoReview_I_b.htm</link><description>Article published in the Economic Review, June 2007</description><pubDate>2007-06-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic projections for Belgium – Spring 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070614_EcoReview_I_a.htm</link><pubDate>2007-06-14</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Quarterly aggregates</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070606_INR_kwartaal.htm</link><description>NAI - Quarterly aggregates</description><pubDate>2007-06-06</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Satellite account of non-profit institutions</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070601_INR_satelliet.htm</link><description>NAI - Satellite account of non-profit institutions</description><pubDate>2007-06-01</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 115</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070531_WP115.htm</link><description>Economic importance of the Belgian ports: Flemish maritime ports and Liège port complex - report 2005</description><pubDate>2007-05-31</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, May 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070525_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-05-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - May 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070524_Conjunctuurbarometer_mei.htm</link><description>Business barometer stabilises in May</description><pubDate>2007-05-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Manifestation du personnel de la Banque nationale</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070522_manifestatie.htm</link><description>En réponse à un communiqué de sa délégation syndicale, la Banque nationale veut rappeler qu'elle a toujours respecté les conventions signées et le dialogue social.</description><pubDate>2007-05-22</pubDate></item><item><title>May 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070522_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Consumer confidence stabilises in may</description><pubDate>2007-05-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Development of Belgium's foreign trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070515_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Development of Belgium's foreign trade - February 2007</description><pubDate>2007-05-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 114</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070503_WP114.htm</link><description>Imports and Exports at the Level of the Firm: Evidence from Belgium</description><pubDate>2007-05-03</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 113</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070430_WP113.htm</link><description>The spread of Keynesian economics: a comparison of the Belgian and Italian experiences</description><pubDate>2007-04-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, April 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070427_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-04-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070427_financiele_rekeningen.htm</link><description>Quarterly financial accounts: 4th quarter 2006</description><pubDate>2007-04-27</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Quarterly accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070425_INR_kwartaal.htm</link><description>NAI - Quarterly accounts</description><pubDate>2007-04-25</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - April 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070424_Conjunctuurbarometer_april.htm</link><description>Business confidence recovers in April</description><pubDate>2007-04-24</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 112</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070423_WP112.htm</link><description>Assessing the Gap between Observed and Perceived Inflation in the Euro Area: Is the Credibility of the HICP at Stake?</description><pubDate>2007-04-23</pubDate></item><item><title>April 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070419_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Improvement in consumer confidence in April</description><pubDate>2007-04-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Development of Belgium's foreign trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070418_foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Trade balance picks up in January 2007</description><pubDate>2007-04-18</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI: Regional accounts, 1995-2004/2005</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070402_INR_Regionale+rekeningen.htm</link><description>NAI: Regional accounts, 1995-2004/2005</description><pubDate>2007-04-02</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Government accounts</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070331+INR+-+Rekeningen+van+de+overheid.htm</link><description>General government accounts for 2007: deficit of 0.2 % of GDP</description><pubDate>2008-03-31</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Government accounts 2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070330_INR_RekeningenOverheid.htm</link><description>General Government accounts 2006: lending of 0,2 GDP</description><pubDate>2007-03-30</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 111</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070329_WP111.htm</link><description>Price setting in the euro area: Some stylized facts from individual producer price data</description><pubDate>2007-03-29</pubDate></item><item><title>General Meeting of Shareholders of &lt;ST1:DATE Month="3" Day="26" Year="2007" w:st="on"&gt;26 March 2007&lt;/ST1:DATE&gt;</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070327_algverg.htm</link><description>General Meeting of Shareholders of &lt;ST1:DATE Month="3" Day="26" Year="2007" w:st="on"&gt;26 March 2007&lt;/ST1:DATE&gt;</description><pubDate>2007-03-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Demande de report de l'assemblée générale de la BNB rejetée</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070323_zjugement.htm</link><description>Demande de report de l'assemblée générale de la BNB rejetée</description><pubDate>2007-03-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, March 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070323_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-03-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - March 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070322_Conjunctuurbarometer_maart.htm</link><description>Business confidence drops in March</description><pubDate>2007-03-22</pubDate></item><item><title>Communiqué au marché: Action en référé concernant la BNB</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070321_communique_marche.htm</link><description>Une action en référé a été lancée ce mercredi matin à l'encontre de la Banque Nationale de Belgique devant la Présidente du Tribunal de commerce de Bruxelles, à la requête de 22 actionnaires, pour l'audience du jeudi 22 mars 2007.</description><pubDate>2007-03-21</pubDate></item><item><title>Réaction de la Banque nationale à l'article paru dans le journal De Morgen du 20 mars intitulé "Ook Nationale Bank richt pijlen op Citibank"</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070320_morgen.htm</link><description>L'article paru le 20 mars dans le Morgen sous le titre "Ook Nationale Bank richt pijlen op Citibank" fait état d'un commentaire attribué à la Banque nationale à propos de l'utilisation du fichier de la Centrale des crédits aux particuliers par la Citibank.</description><pubDate>2007-03-20</pubDate></item><item><title>March 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070320_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Slight drop in consumer confidence in March</description><pubDate>2007-03-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Jugement du 9 mars 2007 - Position de la Banque</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070316_judgment.htm</link><description>Le jugement prononcé le 9 mars 2007 par le Tribunal de commerce de Bruxelles constitue la cinquième décision de justice rendue dans le cadre des litiges qui opposent la Banque nationale de Belgique à quelques-uns de ses actionnaires.</description><pubDate>2007-03-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Avis aux actionnaires</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070316_avis.htm</link><description>L'assemblée générale ordinaire du 26 mars 2007 est appelée à procéder aux élections statutaires.</description><pubDate>2007-03-16</pubDate></item><item><title>Development of Belgium's foreign trade</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070315_Foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Current account surplus declines</description><pubDate>2007-03-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Conseil de régence: démission de Monsieur Christian Dumolin</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070314_Dumolin.htm</link><description>Monsieur Christian Dumolin a donné sa démission comme régent de la Banque nationale de Belgique.</description><pubDate>2007-03-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Jugement prononcé le 9 mars 2007 par le Tribunal de commerce de Bruxelles</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070309_zzvonnis.htm</link><description>Le jugement prononcé ce jour par le Tribunal de commerce de Bruxelles, déboutant les actionnaires de la Banque nationale de Belgique qui contestaient le transfert par la Banque à l'Etat de plus-values réalisées sur or, est disponible sur le site internet de la Banque.</description><pubDate>2007-03-09</pubDate></item><item><title>The Commercial Court of Brussels has found in favour of the National Bank and the Belgian State in the dispute regarding the transfer of capital gains on gold.</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070309_ztoelichting.htm</link><description>The Commercial Court of Brussels today gave its judgment in the dispute between the National Bank of Belgium and the Belgian State on the one hand and a small group of minority shareholders of the Bank on the other regarding the transfer to the Treasury of capital gains on gold made between 1996 and 2002. The Court rejected the plaintiffs’ claim as unfounded.</description><pubDate>2007-03-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Market Communiqué: Jugement prononcé par le Tribunal de commerce de Bruxelles</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070309_uitspraak.htm</link><description>Judgment pronounced today by the Commercial Court of Brussels in the dispute between the National Bank of Belgium and the Belgian State on the one hand and a group of minority shareholders of the Bank on the other regarding the transfer of capital gains on gold.</description><pubDate>2007-03-09</pubDate></item><item><title>Summons to the general meeting of 26 March 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070307_invitation2007.htm</link><description>The shareholders of the NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM S.A. are invited to attend the Ordinary General Meeting which will be held at the Bank, at BE-1000 Brussels, rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères 61, on Monday 26 March 2007 at 11:00 a.m. sharp.</description><pubDate>2007-03-07</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI - Flash estimation of GDP</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070227+INR+-+Flash+raming+van+het+BBP.htm</link><pubDate>2007-02-27</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, February 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070223_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-02-23</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - February 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070222_Conjunctuurbarometer_februari.htm</link><description>Brighter business outlook in February</description><pubDate>2007-02-22</pubDate></item><item><title>February 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070220_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Slight rise in consumer confidence in february</description><pubDate>2007-02-20</pubDate></item><item><title>Development of Belgium's foreign trade in November 2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070215_Foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Positive trade balance in November 2006</description><pubDate>2007-02-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial accounts of Belgium</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070215_financiele_rekeningen.htm</link><description>Quarterly financial accounts: 3th quarter 2006</description><pubDate>2007-02-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Dividende de l'exercice 2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070214_dividend.htm</link><description>La Banque nationale de Belgique porte à la connaissance de ses actionnaires que le dividende net de l'exercice 2006 a été fixé à 52,50 EUR.</description><pubDate>2007-02-14</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 110</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070208_WP110.htm</link><description>Economic impact of port activity - the case of Antwerp</description><pubDate>2007-02-08</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 109</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070205_WP109.htm</link><description>Shocks and frictions in US business cycles: a Bayesian DSGE approach</description><pubDate>2007-02-05</pubDate></item><item><title>ECB Press release</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070201_zprECB.htm</link><description>Remarks by the European Central Bank on the oversight of SWIFT</description><pubDate>2007-02-01</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 108</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070201_WP108.htm</link><description>Investment-Specific Technology Shocks and Labor Market Frictions</description><pubDate>2007-02-01</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly business survey - January 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070124_Conjunctuurbarometer_januari.htm</link><description>Slight drop in business confidence in January</description><pubDate>2007-01-24</pubDate></item><item><title>NAI: Regional accounts 2004: first partial results</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070119_INR_Regionale+rekeningen.htm</link><description>NAI: Regional accounts 2004: first partial results</description><pubDate>2007-01-19</pubDate></item><item><title>January 2007 Consumer survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070119_consumer_survey.htm</link><description>Strong rise in consumer confidence in January</description><pubDate>2007-01-19</pubDate></item><item><title>Communiqué de presse relatif au nouveau plan de migration du SEPA</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070118_SEPA.htm</link><description>Le SEPA Forum, l'accord de coopération interbancaire qui réunit le secteur bancaire belge, la Poste et la Banque nationale de Belgique, a approuvé une nouvelle version du plan de migration belge vers l'espace unique de paiements en euro, mieux connu sous son acronyme anglais SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area).</description><pubDate>2007-01-18</pubDate></item><item><title>La Centrale des crédits aux particuliers: les principales évolutions de 2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070117_kredietcentrales.htm</link><description>La Centrale des crédits aux particuliers: les principales évolutions de 2006</description><pubDate>2007-01-17</pubDate></item><item><title>Development of Belgium's foreign trade in October 2006</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070115_Foreign_trade.htm</link><description>Increase of trade balance in October 2006</description><pubDate>2007-01-15</pubDate></item><item><title>Monthly survey of non-monetary ECB decisions, January 2007</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070112_nonmonetaryECBdecisions.htm</link><description>Once a month, on the day following the Council's second monthly meeting, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) publishes a survey of the non-monetary decisions made on that occasion.</description><pubDate>2007-01-12</pubDate></item><item><title>Working Paper 107</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070111_WP107.htm</link><description>Trend in direct investment stock and activities of foreign subsidiaries</description><pubDate>2007-01-11</pubDate></item><item><title>Bi-annual investment survey</title><link>http://www.nbb.be/pub/01_00_00_00_00/01_06_00_00_00/01_06_01_00_00/20070105_Bi-annual_investment_survey.htm</link><description>Bi-annual investment survey</description><pubDate>2007-01-05</pubDate></item></channel></rss>