The monthly report contains: Macroeconomic development of earnings and costs since the early 1990s, Reports from the Economic Research Centre, Development in the external economic relations of the EU accession countries in central and eastern Europe, Recent tax revenue trends.

The August 2017 Monthly Report comments on the economic situation in Germany in summer 2017.

Implementing a minimum exchange rate regime by buying foreign currency eases monetary conditions domestically and may thus have a direct impact on the inflation rate. However, such foreign currency purchases involve a risky expansion of the central bank’s balance sheet total. A new model can now predict what expansion of the balance sheet a central bank must expect if it wishes to implement a minimum exchange rate in the foreign exchange market.