The Monthly Report April 2014 comments on the reliability of international organisations' estimates of the output gap as well as on the implications of the Eurosystem's monetary operations during the financial crisis. Furthermore, some approaches to explaining the behaviour of inflation since the last financial and economic crisis are described.

In the first half of 2020, the global coronavirus pandemic led to the most severe economic slump in Germany in decades. Governments and central banks around the world have taken extensive measures to stabilise the economy as well as labour and financial markets.

Der Monatsbericht November 2009 kommentiert die Wirtschaftsentwicklung in Deutschland im Herbst 2009.

The January 2014 edition of the Monthly Report analyses in several essays the reform measures taken by the economic and monetary union member states in the course of the current adjustment processes.

The Monthly Report for June 2013 outlines the outlook for the German economy in 2013 and 2014 and includes an article on household wealth and finances in Germany based on the results of a Bundesbank study as well as a report on the implementation of Basel III in European and national law.