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The Riksbank coordinates cybersecurity tests
13/12/2019 -The Riksbank has decided to adopt the TIBER-EU framework and publish guidelines for Sweden’s national adaptation, TIBER-SE. TIBER-EU is a framework for cybersecurity testing, developed by the European Central Bank (ECB). To coordinate these tests...
Perspectives on the krona, inflation and monetary policy
04/12/2019 -It is challenging to sort out what drives the exchange rate and what the exchange rate means for inflation and monetary policy. In the Economic Commentary “Perspectives on the krona, inflation and monetary policy”, the authors use the Riksbank’s...
Lower labour shortage could partly explain low wage growth
14/11/2019 -Nominal wage increases in Sweden have been unusually low in recent years, despite a strong outcome for the Swedish labour market. Several indicators point to demand for labour having exceeded supply, which according to the textbook should have...
Ingves: Resilience to cyber attacks must be strengthened further
28/11/2019 -The Riksbank, in cooperation with the other Nordic central banks, is today arranging a conference on cyber security in the financial sector. This is the third of a series of annual conferences arranged by the Nordic central banks. Governor...
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo och Michael Kremer awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences for 2019
14/10/2019 -The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2019 (the Nobel Prize in Economics) to Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,...
Proposed new Sveriges Riksbank Act
29/11/2019 -The Riksbank Committee has submitted its final report “En ny riksbankslag” (A new Sveriges Riksbank Act) to Minister for Financial Markets Per Bolund. The Committee was instructed to conduct a review of the monetary policy framework and the...
Account of monetary policy in 2019 – return to more normal economic activity and zero interest rate
02/04/2020 -In December the Riksbank raised the repo rate from –0.25 to zero per cent, leaving behind the negative interest rate and could note that the expansionary monetary policy with a negative interest rate and asset purchases had contributed to Sweden...
Slowdown in foreign trade worrying for Swedish economy
22/05/2020 -Global trade has increased rapidly since the early 1990s, thanks to technological developments and increasingly liberal trade regulations. But, after the great recession of 2008–2009, this development has come to a halt. A return to a global...
The functioning of the fixed-income market has deteriorated due to the coronavirus pandemic
16/06/2020 -The functioning of the Swedish fixed-income market is considered to have deteriorated, compared with last autumn, due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is revealed by the Riksbank's Financial markets survey, which was carried out in April and...
How the Riksbank creates money in times of crisis
11/06/2020 -The Riksbank and other central banks around the world have implemented extensive measures to alleviate the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy. Many of the measures involve creating large volumes of new money. But how is...