The January 2015 edition of the Monthly Report comments on the decline in the elasticity of global trade relative to global economic activity and describes the Common Credit Assessment System for assessing the eligibility of Enterprises.

This paper analyses cash and cashless payment instruments in Germany. After a description of developments in a national and international context, we will compile a critical overview of iterature on cost calculations and on the importance of payments media for different countries.

The April 2022 Monthly Report explains the development of the debt situation in the euro area’s private non-financial sector since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and describes possibilities for the stability-oriented further development of the central government’s debt brake. Furthermore, the Monthly Report analyses the current developments in the demand for euro banknotes at the Bundesbank and contains a contribution on the possible macroeconomic consequences of the war in Ukraine: simulations of an intensified risk scenario. 

Der Monatsbericht Dezember 2006 enthält u. a. Beiträge zu den Themen: Deutschland im Globalisierungsprozess; Zur wirtschaftlichen Situation kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen in Deutschland seit 1997; Die Umsetzung der neuen Eigenkapitalregelungen für Banken in deutsches Recht; Neuere Entwicklungen bei Zahlungskarten und innovativen elektronischen Bezahlverfahren.