On 5 April 2016 Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, held a lecture at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She called for a "three-pronged approach" to secure durable growth, with coordinated efforts in the areas of structural reforms as well as in fiscal and monetary policy.

John B. Emerson, Botschafter der USA in Deutschland, hat in Hamburg über die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Amerika gesprochen.

By international standards, cash continues to be a very popular means of payment in Germany. Even for larger purchases, customers in Germany tend to use cash more frequently than those in other countries. A new study provides indications of the reasons behind this behaviour.

It is often said that wage moderation in Germany was the primary cause of the current account imbalances in the euro area that emerged prior to the financial crisis. A new study puts this hypothesis to the test.