The Bundesbank’s October 2018 Monthly Report comments on trends in state government finances, the implementation of the debt brake and future budgetary surveillance. It also analyses the macroeconomic impact of uncertainty as well as the activities of multinationals against the backdrop of national economic statistics. Furthermore, the report contains an article on the growing importance of exchange-traded funds on the financial markets.

The January 2018 edition of the Monthly Report describes how the internationalisation of German firms is impacting on domestic investment and analyses the importance of banks’ profitability and capital for monetary policy. It also looks at developments in corporate financing in the euro area and includes an article on the finalisation of Basel III.

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 October 2014 describes the methodological changes in the financial accounts, comments on the embedment of the German economy in the international division of labour and presents the Single Supervisory Mechanism of the European banking union.

The March 2011 monthly report contains: German balance of payments in 2010, Approaches to the measurement and macroprudential treatment of systemic risk; The implications of the financial crisis for monetary policy.