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.

enthält: Die neue Baseler Eigenkapitalvereinbarung (Basel2); Rolle und Verhalten deutscher Fondsmanager auf dem Aktienmarkt; Struktur der Kapitalverflechtung deutscher Unternehmen mit dem Ausland Ende 1999

The monthly report contains: Economic conditions in Germany, Financial markets, Global and European setting, Monetary policy and banking business, Overview – August 2009, Public finances.

The monthly report contains: The Deutsche Bundesbank's involvement in banking supervision, The role of the International Monetary Fund in a changing global economic environment, The performance of German credit institutions in 1999.

The April Monthly Report illuminates the fundamental theory and evolution of metrics used to measure equity market levels, besides shedding light on the Phillips curve and its use in analysing prices and projecting inflation rates in Germany.