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 June 2012 monthly report contains: Outlook for the German economy – macroeconomic projections for 2012 and 2013; The price of crude oil and its impact on economic activity in the industrial countries; The role of the “Basel interest rate shock” in the supervisory assessment of interest rate risks in the banking book.

The monthly report contains: Appendix: The growth differential between Germany and France, Economic conditions in Germany, Financial markets in Germany, Foreign trade and payments, The international and European setting, Public finance.

In a study prepared together with Professor Friedrich Schneider of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, illegal demand for cash in Germany is investigated. The study presents an overview of economic research on the use of cash in the shadow economy as well as fresh empirical analyses by the authors. They look at the influence of the shadow economy on cash lodgements at Bundesbank branches and the demand for banknotes in Germany.