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 – 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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Monthly Report – October 2022
The October 2022 edition of the Monthly Report examines the subject of state government finances in 2021, focusing on the surplus and growing reserves partly derived from emergency loans. Another article delves into Member States’ financial ties with the EU budget and the Next Generation EU (NGEU) off-budget entity. A third article discusses the validity of interest parity in times of crisis. In addition, the Monthly Report examines the market situation of Federal securities in the context of monetary policy purchases and heightened uncertainty.
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Monthly Report – September 2022
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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