Monthly reports
Monthly reports
In the October 2025 Monthly Report, one article looks at the finances of the European Union, examining Member States’ financial relationships with the EU in 2024 as well as the multiannual financial framework for the period from 2028 to 2034. In another article, authors analyse the effects of global uncertainty on international portfolio flows.
The September 2025 Monthly Report examines the impact of exchange rate changes on domestic prices in times of high inflation and describes the performance of German credit institutions in 2024. It also outlines options for large-value payments in central bank digital currency.
The July 2025 Monthly Report examines the reasons behind the multi-year decline in German export market shares. It also examines collateral management in the euro area since the introduction of the Eurosystem Collateral Management System (ECMS). Another article looks at the key results of the latest monetary policy strategy review.
The June 2025 edition of the Monthly Report contains the Bundesbank’s current Forecast for Germany, which provides an outlook for how the German economy is likely to develop in the near future in view of US tariff policy and the new Federal Government’s fiscal package. A second article looks at the review of the Eurosystem’s operational framework for implementing monetary policy. Another article considers the question of when insurees retire and how pension reductions and increases could be determined depending on the timing of retirement.
The April 2025 Monthly Report presents the results of the 2023 household wealth survey. Another article in the report provides an up-to-date overview of the role cash plays in German society. The report also covers the debt situation in the private non-financial sector of the euro area since the start of monetary policy tightening.
The March 2025 Monthly Report contains a proposal to reform the debt brake and investigates access to cash in Germany. In addition to these topics, one article discusses the analysis of monetary policy communications using artificial intelligence. Another article examines the role of central securities depositories in Europe given their importance to the capital markets union. The Monthly Report also takes a look at Germany’s balance of payments in 2024.
The December 2024 Monthly Report publishes the Deutsche Bundesbank’s forecast for Germany, which provides an outlook on how the German economy is likely to develop in the near future. A second article looks into the funding costs of banks in Germany in the monetary policy interest rate cycle. Finally, an article analyses the profitability and financing of German enterprises during the monetary policy tightening period.
In the October 2024 Monthly Report, the first article investigates how a different method of recording retained earnings in the balance of payments affects the German current account surplus. The second article highlights current developments in Germany’s international interconnectedness via foreign direct investment. The third outlines the development of state government finances in 2023, noting that the situation has deteriorated, but that there is still a structural surplus. The Monthly Report then rounds off with an article examining the topic of wage developments in Germany, detailing the current situation, providing a comparison with the euro area, and offering an outlook.
The September 2024 edition of the Monthly Report examines the impact of European climate policy on German foreign direct investment and discusses the profitability of German credit institutions in 2023. In addition, it looks at the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) from the perspective of on-site inspections. The report concludes with an article on Member States’ financial relationships with the EU budget and the NextGenerationEU off-budget entity in 2023.
The July 2024 Monthly Report looks at the global disinflation process and its costs. In one of its articles, it describes the development of loans to enterprises in Germany since the start of the monetary policy tightening cycle. It also closely examines the EU banking package, a key element of which is the implementation of Basel III.
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