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Improved labour market matching in recent years
13/01/2025 -A new analysis shows that matching in the Swedish labour market deteriorated during the financial crisis and the pandemic. This usually happens during crises. However, matching has recovered somewhat in recent years. The fact that matching has...
Difficult to make forecasts when conditions change drastically
19/01/2024 -Neither the central banks nor other forecasters predicted how quickly inflation would rise in 2021 and 2022, and inflation forecasts accordingly showed major forecasting errors. The Riksbank's forecasting ability for 2021 was good. In 2022 it...
Monetary policy and behavioural economics
10/04/2024 -Do households think about interest rates and wages in real or nominal terms when making financial decisions? Does 'mental accounting' affect households' willingness to buy different types of goods and services at different times? How can...
Settlement of money and securities in central bank money reduces risk
20/02/2024 -In times of change, it is important that the actors in the financial system work to provide safe systems for the settlement of money and securities. Lena Wiberg writes in a new Economic Commentary that one way of reducing risks in settlement is...
How well are inflation expectations anchored at the target?
18/12/2023 -If the inflation target is credible, long-term inflation expectations in the economy are stable close to the target. In a new article, the authors examine how expected inflation in five years' time will be affected by the previous inflation...
Major banks are central to financial linkages and risk transfer
25/06/2026 -A new analysis shows that Swedish credit institutions have extensive and concentrated exposures to foreign financial institutions. The major banks, in particular, emerge as key hubs. They play a central role in how risks can spread across...
Major Swedish banks at centre of closely interconnected financial network
01/04/2026 -In a new Economic Commentary, the authors describe how Swedish credit institutions are interconnected through their bilateral exposures. The authors’ analysis shows that the Swedish banking system is a concentrated network with the largest banks...
New liquidity metric indicates higher liquidity risks
09/05/2022 -The Riksbank's new liquidity metric Deposit Loss Capacity (DLC) shows that there are major banks in Sweden which, during certain periods, have demonstrated clearly higher liquidity risks than the other major banks, which is not fully reflected...
Price changes in Sweden – insights from five million observations
17/01/2022 -What affects inflation most – how often or how much do the prices of goods and services change? Riksbank economists Jacob Ewertzh, Mathias Klein and Oskar Tysklind have found this out by analysing five million price observations between the...
Banks have low loan losses from corporate bankruptcies
22/12/2025 -In a new Economic Commentary, the authors study Swedish companies that have gone bankrupt and whether these have created loan losses for Swedish banks. The analysis shows that Swedish banks have had very low loan losses in recent years, due to...