The September 2022 edition of the Monthly Report features an article on how the negative interest rate policy period and the pandemic are reflected in the Bank Lending Survey, and analyses the effects of reallocation in the corporate sector during the pandemic on developments in productivity. In other articles, the Monthly Report outlines the profitability of German credit institutions in 2021 and discusses the role of the International Monetary Fund in preventing and managing crises.

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The August 2022 edition of the Monthly Report comments on the economic situation in Germany in summer 2022.

The Bundesbank’s greenhouse gas emissions came in at around 13,676 tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 2021, which corresponds to a reduction of just over 52.3% compared with the 2013/14 base value (28,650 t). As in 2020, the restrictions on public life caused by the coronavirus pandemic resulted in reduced emissions in 2021 as well. This was because business travel were still very low and reductions were made in heat consumption.

The July 2022 Monthly Report presents results and use cases of distributional wealth accounts (DWA) for households in Germany and describes the evolution of the creditor structure of government debt in the euro area. It also analyses the factors influencing international portfolio flows and contains an article on the cross-border interoperability of central bank digital currency.