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No significant increase in financially vulnerable firms during the first year of the pandemic
28/10/2021 -The total number of financially vulnerable firms did not increase significantly during the first year of the pandemic compared to 2019. This is shown in a new study by Cristina Cella of the Riksbank's Financial Stability Department. However,...
The General Council of the Riksbank finds no conflict of interest in connection with monetary policy decisions
17/12/2021 -Some media have claimed that Stefan Ingves and Cecilia Skingsley will not have been impartial when they made monetary policy decisions on the purchase of corporate bonds in the secondary market. This has prompted the General Council to make an...
The possible impact of the digital euro on Sweden
14/05/2024 -Eurosystem central banks are well advanced in their efforts to design a central bank digital currency, known as a digital euro. A digital euro is mainly intended for use within the euro area. However, a legislative proposal from the European...
Characteristics of sub-groups in the CPIF
16/05/2024 -In the monetary policy debate, rapidly rising services prices are considered to be particularly worrying, as these rates of price increase are judged to be more persistent and thus take longer to return to their mean value. The authors of a new...
The countercyclical capital buffer should remain unchanged at 2 per cent
31/10/2024 -The Riksbank’s view is that the countercyclical capital buffer should remain unchanged at its neutral level of 2 per cent for the fourth quarter of 2024. Overall, the assessment from August 2024 remains that the current level of the...
Press conference in Falun on 7 November at 10:00 on the monetary policy decision
04/11/2024 -As announced earlier, the Executive Board will hold its monetary policy meeting at the Riksbank's local office in Falun on 6 November. The following day, 7 November at 10:00, a press conference on the monetary policy decision will be held at...
Executive Board at Committee on Finance hearing on current monetary policy
17/10/2023 -Things are going in the right direction, inflation is falling, but price pressure remains too high in the economy. That was the message from the Executive Board when they took part in this year's second hearing at the Riksdag Committee on Finance...
The Riksbank’s Financial Markets Survey: The Swedish fixed-income and foreign exchange markets are functioning well
07/04/2025 -A majority of respondents consider that the Swedish fixed-income and foreign exchange markets are functioning well. The majority of respondents also state that their risk-taking has increased over the past six months, but at the same time most...
Energy price shocks had profound effects on Sweden's consumption patterns
23/04/2025 -In recent years, spending by individuals in Sweden has fluctuated a lot. Since 2022 these fluctuations can be linked to the large shock in the price of energy that followed cuts in the inflow of energy from Russia to Europe in the aftermath of...
Staff memo: How banks' mortgage rates are affected when the policy rate changes
24/04/2025 -How quickly and how much are the banks' mortgage rates adjusted when the Riksbank changes the policy rate? Does this pattern change when the policy rate is negative? This is analysed in a new study based on high-frequency data from Swedish banks...