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Breman: Inflation is falling, but we need to be prepared for setbacks
17/01/2024 -It is welcome that high inflation has now come down. But inflation should not only fall to 2 per cent, it should be sustainably low and stable. These were the words of First Deputy Governor Anna Breman, speaking today at the Bopol Live housing...
Anna Breman: Inflation decline continuing, but risk of setbacks remains
20/02/2024 -“Inflation has fallen significantly from high levels and the inflation outlook is brighter. However, we cannot take a smooth return to low and stable inflation for granted. We therefore need to be patient in our monetary policy.” These were the...
Erik Thedéen visits Skellefteå
15/02/2024 -Governor Erik Thedéen visited Skellefteå during Thursday and discuss the economic situation and current monetary policy at a breakfast seminar organised by the Västerbotten Chamber of Commerce.
Erik Thedéen visits Norrköping
27/02/2024 -Governor Erik Thedéen visited Norrköping on Tuesday and spoke about the economic situation and current monetary policy at a seminar organised by the Chamber of Commerce of East Sweden.
Zombie firms in Sweden do not constitute a threat to either financial stability or economic growth
29/09/2020 -In most developed countries, there has been an increase in economically weak companies, known as “zombie firms”. Cristina Cella has studied Swedish zombie firms. Her analysis shows that zombie firms have not increased dramatically in Sweden over...
Ingves and Jansson at the Riksdag Committee on Finance: Monetary policy supporting recovery and inflation
16/03/2021 -The Swedish economy has withstood the second wave of infection relatively well, supported by extensive economic policy measures. This comment was made by Governor Stefan Ingves in his introduction, when he and Deputy Governor Per Jansson took...
Home equity extraction activities in Sweden
15/05/2020 -Estimates suggest that one-third of mortgage borrowers in Sweden have extracted home equity at least once during the period 2010 – 2017. Home equity extraction raises the debt-to-income ratio of households by 50-70 percentage points, which may...
Can digital central bank currencies function as cash?
16/02/2021 -Many central banks are currently researching the possibility of issuing digital money (central bank digital currency - CBDC) as a complement to the central bank money we use today, namely cash. However, digital central bank currencies would not...
General Council of the Riksbank: Safeguarding the Riksbank’s independence
16/04/2020 -It is important that the principle of an independent Riksbank is upheld in the new Sveriges Riksbank Act and the Riksbank Committee has to a large extent used this principle as a basis. In one area, however, the Committee has chosen a legal...
The Riksbank supports temporary exemptions from the amortisation requirement
08/04/2020 -Finansinspektionen’s previously introduced amortisation requirements have strengthened the resilience of households to various shocks. But the outbreak of the coronavirus and the measures considered necessary to delay the spread of infection...