The Monthly Report August 2015 comments on the economic situation in Germany in summer 2015.

The July 2015 Monthly Report contains an article on slower growth in emerging market economies and describes the adjustment patterns of enterprises in the German labour market during the Great Recession based on selected results of a special survey.

The June 2015 Monthly Report focuses on the outlook for the German economy based on macroeconomic projections for 2015 and 2016. It also contains articles on "Marketable assets of banks and their role as collateral in the Eurosystem" as well as "Inflation expectations: new instruments, current developments and key determinants.

The Monthly Report May 2015 comments on the economic situation in Germany in spring 2015.

The April 2015 Bundesbank Monthly Report contains articles on labour market-related government expenditure, structural changes in the German banking sector and transaction-related circulation trends in euro coins in Germany.

The March 2015 edition of the Bundesbank's Monthly Report describes how macroprudential policy impacts on monetary policymaking and presents some of the ways in which the regulatory framework underpinning European monetary union can be strengthened. It also looks into Germany's 2014 balance of payments and includes an article on the methodology and results of the securities holder statistics and the role they play in analysing the ownership of securities in Germany and Europe.

The information contained in the study is of interest to all market participants affected by the payment behaviour of private individuals, most notably retailers, credit institutions, card issuers and, last but not least, the Deutsche Bundesbank itself. Players wishing to foster more innovation in the field of payments need to offer a genuine advantage over established schemes and procedures and, in particular, to heed users’ perceived security needs.