The December 2021 edition of the Monthly Report outlines Germany’s economic outlook for 2022 to 2024 and analyses the profitability and financing of German enterprises in 2020.

The Bundesbank aims to use resources sustainably, minimise its environmental impact and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions caused by its business operations.

Intensiver Austausch zur digitalen Transformation in Zentralbanken sowie zu „Finanzstabilität, Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten und COVID-19“, neue Gesichter in unseren Auslandsvertretungen und Ausblick auf die neuen Kurse 2022.

At first the euro was mistrusted, with many calling it the “teuro” (“expensive euro”). Around 20 years ago, 70% of the participants in a survey by the Institut für Demoskopie responded that they had “little or no trust” in the euro, which had been introduced in cash form on 1 January 2002. Today, 82% of Germans support the euro. The Bundesbank played a key role in the introduction of euro cash in January 2002.

Is there a difference between the inflation expectations of private households in Germany formed under the ECB’s previous target definition of “below, but close to, 2%” and those under the new inflation target of “symmetrically 2%”? New survey results from the Bundesbank Online Panel Households (BOP-HH) show that the new inflation target is associated with moderately higher inflation expectations for the next two to three years. The differences become more accentuated when the respondents are also told that the new monetary policy strategy entails the possibility of inflation exceeding the target.