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.

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 July 2013 examines the background and framework for the introduction of the common European Banking Supervisors, explains the problem of the estimates of yield curve in the financial crisis and analyzes the differences in monetary and credit growth in the euro area.

Der Monatsbericht Juli 2014 enthält einen Beitrag zu dem Thema Wechselkurse und Finanzstress und beschreibt die Entwicklung der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung und die damit zusammenhängenden Herausforderungen für die Zukunft. Ferner werden Konzeption und erste Ergebnisse der Konzernabschlussstatistik als Beitrag zur erweiterten Unternehmensanalyse beschrieben sowie die Bedeutung der Versicherungswirtschaft für die Finanzstabilität untersucht.

The January 2012 monthly report contains: Long-term developments in corporate financing in Germany – evidence based on the financial accounts; The PHF: a survey of household wealth
and finances in Germany; The European single market in payments nearing completion.