Current Monthly Reports
Click here for the last 12 monthly reports of the Deutsche Bundesbank. The monthly reports handle economic issues, including in particular monetary policy, and financial and economic policy issues.
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Monthly report –October 2023
The October 2023 edition of the Monthly Report examines whether German and euro area price competitiveness is favourable. It also describes how state government finances developed in 2022 and finds that, despite large surpluses overall, recourse to emergency loans was extensive in some cases.
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Monthly report – September 2023
The Bundesbank’s September 2023 Monthly Report takes a look at se-lected aspects of the current dependencies and medium-term challenges for Germany as a business location. It also discusses the question of whether there are heterogeneous effects in the implementation of monetary policy in the euro area. The report further includes an analysis of the reliability of models for short-term economic forecasting during recent crises. Another article describes Member States’ financial relationships with the EU budget and the Next Generation EU off-budget entity in 2022. And finally, the performance of German credit institutions in 2022 is discussed.
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Monthly report – August 2023
The August 2023 edition of the Monthly Report comments on the economic situation in Germany in summer 2023.
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Monthly Report – July 2023
The July 2023 issue of the Monthly Report highlights the financial industry’s options regarding digital money. Another article analyses cross-border liquidity flows and links them to the role of the banking system in Germany’s balance of payments. A third text discusses economic developments in emerging market economies.
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Monthly Report – June 2023
The June 2023 Monthly Report projects how the German economy is likely to develop up until 2025. Another article in the report analyses how bank interest rates in Germany change as monetary policy is tightened. A further contribution discusses the growing significance of central government’s off-budget entities.
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Monthly Report – May 2023
The May 2023 edition of the Monthly Report comments on the economic situation in Germany in spring 2023.
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Monthly Report – April 2023
The April 2023 Monthly Report describes the relationship between money market conditions and the remuneration of government deposits. It also presents the results of the new household wealth survey. In addition, it discusses the impact of the current crises on international payments and how sustainability risks are factored into banking supervision.
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Monatsbericht – March 2023
The March 2023 Monthly Report describes how the German balance of payments developed in 2022. It also discusses the significance of digitalisation for labour productivity. An additional article covers the profitability and financing of German enterprises in 2021.
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Monatsbericht – February 2023
The February 2023 edition of the Monthly Report comments on the economic situation in Germany in winter 2022/23.
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Monthly Report – January 2023
The January 2023 issue of the Monthly Report explores how monetary policy has evolved from the monetary pillar to the monetary and financial analysis. Another article looks at yield curves in economic analysis. In addition, the Report addresses the question of how mobile payment methods are used in Germany. Finally, consumer access to cash in Germany is discussed on the basis of an evaluation of the geographical availability of cash withdrawal locations.
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Monthly Report – December 2022
The December 2022 edition of the Bundesbank’s Monthly Report describes the outlook for the German economy for 2023 to 2025. Furthermore, it discusses the recent rise in energy prices in the context of Germany’s price competitiveness. The report also features an article entitled “Access to cash in Germany – results of a representative public survey”.
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Monthly Report – November 2022
The November 2022 edition of the Monthly Report comments on the economic situation in Germany in autumn 2022.
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