Abbreviations

€STR Euro short-term rate

AIAF Association of Securities Dealers

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations

BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

BE Banco de España

BIS Bank for International Settlements

BP Balance of Payments

CBSO Central Balance Sheet Data Office

CCR Central Credit Register

CEMLA Center for Latin American Monetary Studies

CEPR Centre for Economic Policy Research

CFI Credit Financial Intermediaries

CNE Spanish National Accounts

CNMV National Securities Market Commission

CPI Consumer price index

DGS Directorate General of Insurance and Pension Funds

EAGGF European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund

ECB European Central Bank

ECCO ECB External Communications Committee

ECOFIN Council of the European Communities (Economic and Financial Affairs)

EDP Excessive Deficit Procedure

E-money Electronic money institutions

EMU Economic and Monetary Union

EONIA Euro overnight index average

EPA Official Spanish Labour Force Survey

ERDF European Regional Development Fund

ESA 79 European System of Integrated Economic Accounts

ESA 95 European System of National and Regional Accounts

ESCB European System of Central Banks

EU European Union

EU-15 Countries making up the European Union as at 31/04/04

EU-25 Countries making up the European Union as from 1/05/04

EU-27 Countries making up the European Union as from 1/01/07

EU-28 Countries making up the European Union as from 1/07/13

Eurostat Statistical Office of the European Communities

FAFA Fund for the Acquisition of Financial Assets

FASE Financial Accounts of the Spanish Economy

FDI Foreign direct investment

FIAMM Money market funds

FIM Securities funds

FISIM Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured

GDI Gross disposable income

GDP Gross domestic product

GFCF Gross fixed capital formation

GNP Gross national product

GVA Gross value added

HICP Harmonised index of consumer prices

IADB Inter-American Development Bank

ICT Information and communications technology

IGAE National Audit Office

IIP International Investment Position

IMF International Monetary Fund

INE National Institute of Statistics

INVERCO Association of Collective Investment Institutions and Pension Funds

LIFFE London International Financial Futures Exchange

MEFF Financial Futures and Options Market

MEFF RF RF Fixed-income derivatives market

MEFF RV Equity derivatives market

MFIs Monetary financial institutions

MMFs Money market funds

MROs Main refinancing operations

NCBs National central banks

NIC newly industrialized countries

NIOP Not included elsewhere

NMFIs Non-monetary financial institutions

NPISHs Non-profit institutions serving households

OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OPEC Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries

PFs Pension Funds

PPP Purchasing power parity

QNA Quarterly National Accounts

RoW Rest of the World

SCLV Securities Clearing and Settlement Service

SDRs Special drawing rights

SICAV Open-end Investment Companies

SMEs Small and medium-sized enterprises

SPE Special Purpose Entities

TARGET Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system

TFP Total factor productivity

ULCs Unit labour costs

VAT Value added tax

XBRL Extensible Business Reporting Language