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.