On 9 September 2014 during the annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik, the Carl Menger Prize for economics was awarded for the first time, the recipient being Hélène Rey, an economist at the London Business School.

On 1 February 2015, Emanuel Mönch will take over as Head of the Research Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank. He will succeed Heinz Herrmann, who is retiring at the start of 2015.

According to the latest Bank Lending Survey, the credit standards of German institutions for lending to non-financial corporations were unchanged in the second quarter of 2014.

In the first quarter of 2014, the financial assets of households rose by €54 billion on the quarter, climbing to €5,207 billion. The transaction-related acquisition of financial assets accounted for a relatively large share of this increase (€49 billion), while valuation gains played only a minor role (just under €5 billion).

Experience has shown that exchange rates can be fairly volatile in times of heightened tension in the international financial markets.

In the first half of 2014, the Bundesbank registered a total of just under 25,000 counterfeit euro banknotes with a nominal value of €1.5 million. This means that the number of counterfeits was up 27% on the second half of 2013. This equates statistically to six counterfeit banknotes per 10,000 inhabitants. Despite this increase, the number of counterfeit banknotes found in circulation is not a cause for concern.