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David Vestin
19/03/2025 -Short Bio David joined the Research Division in June 2015, after working as the Head of the Modelling Division (2 years) and as Deputy Head (5 years) in the monetary policy department. Prior to joining the Riksbank David worked as a Senior...
Invalid 20-krona banknotes
04/05/2018 -Invalid after 31 December 2005 20-krona banknote (slightly larger with a blue tone) printed 1991-1995 Banknote Information Size 130x72 millimetres Watermark The watermark on the banknote repeats the portrait of Selma Lagerlöf on the front...
Volume II: House Prices, Stock Returns, National Accounts, and the Riksbank Balance Sheet, 1620–2012
01/02/2018 -23 April 2014 saw the publication of a new book of statistics concerning the emergence of the Swedish monetary and financial systems, Historical Monetary and Financial Statistics for Sweden, Volume II: House Prices, Stock Returns, National...
Marianne Nessén to take on new advisory role - Anders Vredin acting Head of the Monetary Policy Department
14/01/2018 -The Executive Board of the Riksbank has decided to appoint Anders Vredin as acting Head of the Monetary Policy Department after Marianne Nessén, who will take on a new position as senior advisor to the Executive Board.
Cheaper spirits
07/02/2018 -In Fredman’s epistle no. 24, the poet Carl Michael Bellman hails deflation as it is making aquavit cheaper. Times are bad! People are sad - but with a lower nicker comes cheaper liquor…...
Anckarström shoots the king
07/02/2018 -Gustav III is murdered by a borrower who has made large losses due to the king’s manipulation of the value of money.
Repo rate cut to 0 per cent
09/02/2018 -In October 2014, the Riksbank cuts the repo rate to 0 per cent. Its aim is to increase demand in the economy and bring inflation up. This is a historic event; never in the Riksbank’s almost 350-year history has the interest rate been so low.
Negative repo rate is introduced
09/02/2018 -The increasingly low rate of inflation leads to a series of repo rate cuts. In February 2015, the repo rate becomes negative for the first time. The Riksbank also starts to purchase government bonds to lower interest rates in general across the...
Swedish monetary policy in line with the Taylor Rule
15/01/2018 -Swedish monetary policy, since the inflation target was introduced, is in line with a so-called Taylor Rule. Today's very expansionary monetary policy, with a negative interest rate, is in line with the Taylor Rule if one takes into account the...
Open hearing of Riksdag Committee on Finance on financial stability
15/01/2018 -Stefan Ingves will today present the Riksbank's view of the current state of financial stability and the need for action at the Riksdag Committee on Finance's open hearing on financial stability. The Director General of Finansinspektionen Erik...