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Cash free – not problem-free
29/10/2020 -People in rural areas are finding it harder to cope without cash. This is also true of elderly people. In addition, many people experience occasional technical problems when paying in shops. Cashless – not problem-free...
Pandemic hastening development towards digital payments
03/11/2021 -During the coronavirus pandemic, the use of cash has declined in Sweden and in many other countries. Instead, contactless payments and other digital forms of payment have become more common. This is partly because we have shopped more online and...
International harmonisation affects Sweden
03/11/2021 -Payments in the euro area often function as smoothly as payments within Sweden’s borders. Payments to other countries, however, may still be slow and expensive. To improve payments between countries, international work is under way on...
Are payments efficient?
03/11/2021 -Payments in Sweden are on the whole efficient. Digitalisation means that society's costs for payments fall, as digital means of payment are cheaper than payments in cash. However, this development is problematic for people who do not use digital...
The Riksbank is actively participating in the international cooperation
03/11/2021 -The development towards an increasing number of digital payments has received an extra push from the pandemic. At the same time, central banks and international organisations are addressing the fact that cross-border payments can still be...
Energy prices have been rising faster for a long time
13/04/2022 -Energy prices have been rising faster for a long time What guidance can be given on how inflation will develop by studying the impact of energy prices in the past? That energy prices are rising more rapidly than the CPIF, that is, the relative...
Data sources
12/04/2022 -Data sources Greenhouse gas emissions and gross national products for countries UNFCCC Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data, Times series for Annex I countries, GHG total without LULUCF. Data series from OECD National Accounts Statistics: GDP...