Notenbanken sollten die finanziellen Risiken mit Klimabezug in ihrem Risikomanagement berücksichtigen, sagte Bundesbankpräsident Jens Weidmann bei der Pressekonferenz zum Jahresabschluss 2019.

The Bundesbank posted a profit of €5.8 billion for the 2019 financial year. Following adjustment of the reserves, the Bank registered its highest distributable profit since 2008, at €5.9 billion. “Lower risk provisioning is the main reason for this strong rise in the profit for the year,” Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann explained.

The digital transformation creates scope to make workflows and production processes more efficient. To quantify the impact of digital transformation on labour productivity, research often focuses on investments in digital technologies. This perspective neglects the fact that digital intermediate inputs, such as microchips or integrated software, also represent an important transmission channel for the efficiency gains from digitalisation. In a new study, Bundesbank researchers have examined how efficiency gains in the digital sectors have affected labour productivity in Germany, France and the United States.

Bundesbankpräsident Jens Weidmann hat sich beim Neujahrsempfang der Deutschen Börse in Eschborn für eine verständlichere Geldpolitik ausgesprochen.