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Market situations affect investor behaviour
24/05/2024 -Investor behaviour can affect the functioning of markets and create risks. In a new staff memo, the author examines how investor behaviour has changed over time and varied depending on market situations. Since 2020, different market situations...
A central bank can conduct an effective monetary policy with low equity
12/12/2022 -Neither weak financial results nor low equity limit the short-term prospects of monetary policy. Central banks, unlike private banks and other commercial activities, are not at risk of bankruptcy and can normally generate the resources they need...
Staff Memo: Appropriate capital ratios in major Swedish banks – new perspectives
17/01/2018 -The authors of a new Staff Memo present new calculations showing that higher capital ratios for the major Swedish banks could be justified because the social benefit be expected to outweigh the social cost. These calculations indicate that an...
Payment services cheaper and more profitable for the banks
11/03/2024 -Digitalisation has reduced banks' costs for payment services. For example, their costs for handling cash have decreased by almost SEK 3 billion in 2021 compared to 2009. Together with the increase in digital payments, this has made payment...
New mapping of the investment fund sector's cross-border links
08/08/2023 -A new Staff Memo has for the first time mapped the Swedish cross-border links generated by the investment portfolios of the rapidly growing investment fund sector. The author, Samantha Myers, senior economist at the Financial stability...
Swedish equity funds can do more to help with the climate transition
03/10/2022 -Swedish equity funds that have joined a climate initiative have on average reduced the carbon dioxide emissions in their portfolios more actively than those that have not joined an initiative. However, there is little evidence that funds that...
Swedish equity funds far from Paris Agreement target
17/04/2023 -Cristina Cella, an advisor at the Riksbank, has examined the temperature alignments of 122 Swedish equity funds in a new Staff Memo. The results suggest that the funds in the sample on average are aligned to a temperature increase of 2.77 °C,...
Shortage of liquidity creates difficult situations for pension managers
30/01/2023 -In September 2022, long-term UK interest rates rose sharply as the result of an unfunded budget proposal from the country’s government. This led to a liquidity crisis in many UK pension funds due to their management strategy. In a new Staff...
A study of the Swedish derivative market
10/06/2021 -The derivative market is large, both in Sweden and globally. In Sweden, the derivative market is 16 times the size of GDP, or 5 times the size of the Swedish banking sector's total assets. At the same time, the Swedish market only amounts to...
Riksbank bond purchases also lower short-term interest rates
16/12/2021 -A stated objective of central bank bond purchases is to lower long-term interest rates. The government bond purchases of the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, have, however, also lowered interest rates for short-term holding periods. These...