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The Riksbank’s communication policy
15/01/2025 -This policy aims to explain how the Riksbank uses its communication to attain its objectives and carry out its tasks – to keep inflation low and stable, to ensure that the financial system functions well and that it is possible to pay safely and...
Important role for Hammarskjöld
07/02/2018 -Dag Hammarskjöld has great influence over the coordination of fiscal and monetary policy, both as state secretary at the Ministry of Finance and as Chairman of the Riksbank's General Council. Later, he becomes the UN’s first and, so far, only...
The interest rate coup
07/02/2018 -Without informing the Government in advance, the Riksbank raises the repo rate by an entire percentage point, from 4 to 5 per cent. The decision leads to heated political debate but marks the end of the low interest rate policy. ...
First in the world with price stability target
07/02/2018 -After speculation against the krona, Sweden abandons the gold standard. The exchange rate becomes variable but, to protect domestic purchasing power, the Riksbank becomes the first central bank in the world to have a price stability target as a...
The Kreuger Crash
07/02/2018 -Ivar Kreuger’s enormous financial empire collapses in the wake of the Wall Street Crash. Despite enormous credits from Swedish banks and the Riksbank, he is unable to get his affairs in order and found dead on March 12, 1932 in Paris.
Financial crisis managed
07/02/2018 -A financial crisis breaks out in the United States. It rapidly spreads to Europe and Sweden. For the first time, the Riksbank acts as a modern central bank and manages the crisis.
Construction starts on the Riksbank building
07/02/2018 -It takes six years for the building, designed by architect Peter Celsing, to be finished. On 8 April 1976, it is time to move into the black granite building at Brunkebergstorg in Stockholm.
Strong deflation after the war
07/02/2018 -The end of the war means that the strong demand for Swedish products abroad collapses with devastating deflation and an economic crisis as consequence.
Policies
26/06/2025 -A policy states principles or contains provisions of strategic significance for the bank and is normally fairly general, containing general principles in the area of regulations that require compliance.
Annex: The Riksbank's climate-related publications
14/12/2021 -Annex: The Riksbank's climate-related publications Strategy Sustainability strategy, December 2020. Published speeches Breman, Anna (2020),”How the Riksbank can contribute to climate policy”, speech on 3 March at the Royal Swedish Academy of...