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21/02/2024 -Summary The Riksbank has evaluated different measures of core inflation in an Economic Commentary and in an article from 2018.[1] Economic Commentaries are brief analyses of issues with relevance for the Riksbank. They can be written by...
Mental accounting may have influenced household savings
10/04/2024 -Mental accounting may have influenced household savings One explanation for the rise in inflation in Sweden and many other countries in 2021-2022 is strong consumer demand, especially for services. The theory of mental accounting provides a...
Summary
10/04/2024 -Summary The high inflation and changing consumption patterns of recent years have been particularly difficult to capture with the models and analyses normally used by central banks. We explore whether insights from behavioural economics can help...
Perception of fairness
10/04/2024 -Perception of fairness The perception of fairness can have a significant impact on wage and price formation, as we will discuss later. In the empirical literature, experiments have shown that individuals not only have preferences for maximising...
The interest rate, the real economy and inflation
10/04/2024 -The interest rate, the real economy and inflation In macroeconomic analysis, an important channel from monetary policy to the real economy is the so-called interest-rate channel. In turn, a key building block of this channel is the formation of...
Evaluation of measures of core inflation
21/02/2024 -Evaluation of measures of core inflation...
Effects of more persistent changes in monetary policy
20/12/2022 -Effects of more persistent changes in monetary policy When inflation started to rise rapidly at the end of 2021, the Riksbank was eventually expected to adjust its monetary policy quite substantially. The Riksbank also started to do this in...
The cost to society can be reduced
23/03/2023 -The cost to society can be reduced In Sweden, more than 95 per cent of payments are digital. There is therefore potential to reduce the social resources spent on payments by making greater use of the most cost-efficient ways of making digital...
Payments consume a lot of social resources
23/03/2023 -Payments consume a lot of social resources In 2021, around 6 billion payments were made in Sweden.[3] See the Riksbank's payment statistics for 2021. Transactions between financial companies are not included in the statistics. These payments have...
How is inflation affected by changes in monetary policy?
20/12/2022 -How is inflation affected by changes in monetary policy? Figure 1 shows how an unexpected "exogenous" increase in the policy rate affects inflation and GDP in two macroeconomic models adapted to Swedish conditions: the Riksbank's model Maja and...