What are households’ expectations? Since 2019, the Deutsche Bundesbank has been investigating this question by surveying households in Germany on a regular basis (Bundesbank Online Panel Households).

The €100 banknote of the Europa series was introduced on 17 September 2018. The Europa series was introduced in May 2013, starting with the €5 banknote.

It is necessary to have a collateral account at the Deutsche Bundesbank to be able to use MACCs. If such an account has already been set up, there are only a few steps that need to be taken to be able to submit credit claims using the MACCs application.

All counterparties have two options for submitting credit claims: the online procedure and the file-transfer procedure. There is also a backup procedure for both types of submission.

Der gewichtete Indikator der Kreditfinanzierungskosten für neue Kredite an Unternehmen sank um 16 Basispunkte auf 4,36 % und der entsprechende Indikator für neue Wohnungsbaukredite an private Haushalte um 8 Basispunkte auf 3,39 %.

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The labour market is where enterprises' demand for the production factor labour meets household's supply of working time.

This page provides information about the standard XML formats for prudential returns as from reporting month December 2004. The lists below give all schemas needed to set up and validate XML files. Descriptions of the contents are included. If they have already been set, dates for test and live submissions are also shown.

The branches of the Bundesbank supply the economy with euro banknotes and coins, and offers private customers the opportunity to exchange D-Mark banknotes and coins free-of-charge and with no fixed deadline.

Monthly turnover data are available for industry and the retail trade sector. Quarterly time series are published for the services sector. The results for the retail trade are also included in the calculation of private consumption.

The strategy sets out in a binding manner how the Bundesbank intends to fulfil its mandate and forms the basis for its new steering model.

As before, there was only a slight quarter-on-quarter change in firms’ expectations over the next 12 months. In the first quarter of 2025, somewhat more firms expected a decrease in short-term liquidity (31%; previous quarter: 30%) than an increase (17%; previous quarter: 15%). Compared with the fourth quarter of 2024, the gap between these two groups thus narrowed by one percentage point to 14%. 

Through its academic survey, the Research Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank is obtaining a picture of the current situation among firms in Germany and gaining greater insight into their expectations for the coming months. Over time, the survey also provides crucial information on changes within the corporate sector.

Am 19. Dezember 2024 verabschiedete der EZB-Rat eine Neuregelung für die Übersetzung der im Wirtschaftsbericht enthaltenen Kästen in die Sprachen des Euroraums. Es ist den zuständigen nationalen Zentralbanken fortan selbst überlassen, ob sie die Kästen übersetzen oder nicht. 

Die Konjunktur- und Preisentwicklung in Deutschland und in anderen Ländern wird in verschiedenen Statistiken abgebildet.

Die Erwartungen der Umfrageteilnehmerinnen und -teilnehmer für die am Harmonisierten Verbraucherpreisindex (HVPI) gemessene Gesamtinflation lagen für 2025 bei 2,1 %, für 2026 bei 1,9 % und für 2027 bei 2,0 %. Damit wurden die Erwartungen für 2025 gegenüber der im vierten Quartal 2024 durchgeführten Umfrage um 0,2 Prozentpunkte nach oben revidiert, während die Erwartungen für 2026 unverändert blieben.

Die EZB trifft Motiv-Vorauswahl zu zwei möglichen Themen: „Europäische Kultur: Gemeinsame Kulturstätten“ sowie „Flüsse und Vögel: Stark durch Vielfalt"

17 EWR-Länder haben einen positiven neutralen Ansatz beim antizyklischen Kapitalpuffer eingeführt.

The mission statement expresses the Bundesbank’s defining features, how it interprets its mandate and the future vision it aspires to.

Der Median der von den Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten wahrgenommenen Inflation stieg den zweiten Monat in Folge, und zwar von 3,4 % im November auf 3,5 % im Dezember, an.

The continual observation of price stability is based on analyses of price statistics. Particular attention is usually paid to the German Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) and the national Consumer Price Index (CPI), which are both published by the Federal Statistical Office and often used throughout the EU and as inflation measures.

The finance ministers of the federal states met in Frankfurt am Main for a change. And for a very particular reason: this marked the 1,000th meeting of the Bundesrat’s Finance Committee. The venue was the same building where, on 25 and 26 September 1946, the “German Financial Council” convened for the first time: under the roof of what was to become the Bank deutscher Länder, the Bundesbank’s predecessor institution. 

Im ersten Halbjahr 2024 erhöhte sich die Gesamtzahl bargeldloser Zahlungsvorgänge im Euroraum um 7,4 % auf 72,1 Milliarden im Vergleich zum ersten Halbjahr 2023; der Gesamtwert stieg unterdessen um 1,9 % auf 113,5 Bio. €.