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Monthly Report: Global economic activity has so far been robust in spite of tight monetary policy
16.07.2024 DE
Energy prices skyrocketed and the cost of groceries went up significantly: life suddenly became more expensive in many places starting in early 2021. In the current issue of the Monthly Report, the Bundesbank’s economists examine what was behind these price increases, why inflation has since eased again and what role was played by central banks. They also reveal why the path back to price stability has posed no major disruptions to the real economy so far.
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Nagel: Germany as an investment location could become a true turnaround story
10.07.2024 DE
Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel talks to the "Tagesspiegel" about the opportunities and problems facing Germany as a business location. According to Nagel, Germany could become a turnaround story if the structural problems are addressed and solved. Other topics include the development of inflation in Germany and the digital euro.
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Bundesbank hosts start-ups at InnoWerk
04.07.2024 DE
The Bundesbank, institutional partner of the TechQuartier hub, recently invited start-ups and finance industry representatives to share their views on the future of money. In a session titled “Digital Money”, participants discussed the digital euro and innovative digital solutions for the financial industry. The event was hosted by the Bundesbank’s InnoWerk innovation lab.
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International dialogue: Bundesbank hosts conference on macroprudential topics
In cooperation with the Dutch and Swedish central banks, the Bundesbank invited participants to an international conference on macroprudential topics. This year’s event in Eltville am Rhein addressed issues such as tackling interest rate risk, capital buffers for banks and non-standard monetary policy. The keynote speaker was Tobias Adrian of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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The varying degrees of “net” – an international comparison of the tax wedge on labour
19.06.2024 DE
The tax wedge on labour – i.e. the burden of taxes and social security contributions on labour income – is a frequently discussed topic. An article from the Bundesbank’s current Monthly Report examines the tax wedge on labour in greater detail. It looks, in particular, at the difference between pension contributions and tax payments. “A nuanced analysis of tax wedge ratios makes an important contribution to enabling better interpretation of tax wedges,” the authors of the article write.
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Bundesbank launches text-based intelligent assistants (TIAs)
14.06.2024 DE
The Bundesbank has unveiled its TIA platform, enabling staff across the institution to harness artificial intelligence. Users can configure text-based intelligent assistants (TIAs) to their particular requirements and share them with others. And they don’t need to write a single line of code to do so, because state-of-the-art technology can digitalise processes in less than five minutes.
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Bundesbank symposium: digitalisation and Single Supervisory Mechanism in the spotlight
13.06.2024 DE
The Bundesbank’s “Banking supervision in dialogue” symposium ranks among the key forums for banking and financial supervisory topics in Germany. This year’s event in Frankfurt am Main centred around ten years of the SSM, artificial intelligence, and crypto-assets regulation. Speakers included Bundesbank Executive Board member Burkhard Balz, FINMA CEO Stefan Walter, SSM Chair Claudia Buch (European Central Bank) and Karlheinz Walch (Director General Banking and Financial Supervision, Deutsche Bundesbank).
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Nagel: “Germany is facing major longer-term challenges”
11.06.2024 DE
Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel says the German economy is facing major longer-term challenges.
The first two challenges ... are the need to decarbonise the economy and the ageing of our society,
he argued at a change of office ceremony at the Bundesbank’s Regional Office in Saxony and Thuringia. He hailed last week’s rates cut by the ECB Governing Council as the right decision but advised caution, noting that future economic and price developments were still fraught with uncertainty. -
Bundesbank Forecast for Germany: German economy slowly regaining its footing
07.06.2024
The Bundesbank sees the German economy slowly regaining its footing after a roughly two-year period of weakness. Not only will private consumption gradually pick up again, but export business will also improve again from the second half of the year. “The German economy is extricating itself from the period of economic weakness,” Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said on publication of the current Forecast for Germany. According to the forecast, real gross domestic product (GDP) will rise by a calendar-adjusted 0.3% this year.
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G7 meeting in Stresa: Joint Nagel/Lindner press conference
24.05.2024 DE
The finance ministers and central bank governors of the seven leading western industrial countries (G7) met in Stresa, Italy, to exchange views on current issues. Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel and Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner held a joint press conference at which the main focus was on the development of the global economy and trade, but other topics on the agenda were current affairs and interest rate developments.