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Thedéen: The banks need to have more active liquidity management
11/09/2025 -The banks need to prepare to manage more of their liquidity in the overnight market. This was pointed out by Governor Erik Thedéen when he invited monetary policy counterparties to Brunkebergstorg to talk about how the banks will be affected...
Why does the Riksbank analyse different measures of core inflation?
03/10/2018 -Sveriges Riksbank has had an inflation target of 2 per cent since the mid-1990s and as of autumn 2017, this target is expressed in terms of the CPIF. But to obtain as good an indication as possible of current inflationary pressures and where...
Press conference on IMF assessment of Swedish economy
19/02/2019 -On Thursday, 21 February, a delegation from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, will complete its annual visit to Sweden. The visit forms part of the review of the economic situation that the IMF regularly carries out for each member country,...
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...
Making forecasts of the krona exchange rate
29/11/2019 -The best method for predicting the krona exchange rate depends on the forecast horizon. Up to one year ahead, the best forecast for the krona exchange rate is its level at forecast date. At longer horizons, the best forecast is based on the...
Dag Edvardsson new General Counsel to the Riksbank
07/01/2020 -The Executive Board of the Riksbank has appointed Dag Edvardsson as new General Counsel to the Riksbank. His most recent post was Senior Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Finance. He will take up the position on 1 March 2020.
New challengers on the mortgage market
15/01/2020 -In Sweden, the norm is for mortgages to be issued by banks. But new players, known as mortgage credit companies, are now challenging this norm. A new Economic Commentary describes the development of these new players in Sweden and draws...
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...
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...
New issue of the Riksbank’s journal Economic Review
18/06/2020 -The second issue of Sveriges Riksbank Economic Review in 2020 has a special theme, namely central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and the e-krona. Regular readers of the Economic Review may remember that there was a theme issue on the e-krona in...