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10 questions and answers about the distributional effects of monetary policy
09/06/2021 -How is the coronavirus crisis affecting the distribution of income in Sweden? Have the low interest rate and the Riksbank’s purchases of assets widened or narrowed the spread of incomes and wealth? What could happen if monetary policy tried to...
Banks can improve the way they measure liquidity risks
13/02/2023 -A new Economic Commentary describes how a supplementary liquidity metric, based on Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), can be calculated to take account of the additional liquidity need required for banks to be able to cope throughout the entire...
How should we view the development of the krona?
28/03/2023 -The Swedish krona weakened significantly in 2022. Is there any explanation for the long-term development of the krona? Does the weaker krona indicate weakness in the Swedish economy and what role does monetary policy play? Carl-Johan Belfrage,...
Interest rate adjustments have the fastest effect on consumption of durable goods
03/04/2025 -Changes in interest rates have broad effects on consumption, but affect different groups of goods differently. An Economic Commentary published by the Riksbank examines the sensitivity of different components of consumption to interest rates.
Which measure of inflation works best depends on the situation
21/02/2024 -Central banks around the world often use the term “core inflation” to describe longer-term trends in inflation. But how good are these measures at forecasting future CPIF inflation? This question is answered in a new Economic Commentary by...
Price changes at different time horizons
03/05/2024 -In recent years of high inflation, more attention than before has been paid to price developments over periods shorter than 12 months. In a new Economic Commentary by Oskar Tysklind and Jesper Johansson, the authors show that when inflation is...
Economic Commentary: Fewer taking part in labour market surveys – a challenge for monetary policy
10/06/2024 -Over time, the response rate in various statistical surveys, including the Labour Force Survey (LFS), has decreased. This development is common to several countries, and was accentuated in many places in connection with the pandemic.
The impact of the exchange rate on consumer prices in Sweden
28/06/2024 -The krona's fluctuation against the US dollar may have a lower impact on consumer prices than the krona's fluctuation against the euro. This is shown by authors Stefania Mammos and Dmytro Stoyko in a new Economic Commentary that examines how...
What does an increased share of products with low import content mean for inflation?
01/07/2024 -In a new Economic Commentary by Bengt Petersson, the author shows that an increased share of the product category with a low import content in the CPIF over time may have contributed to inflation remaining at a high level for longer than it...
Inflation dynamics in the high inflation period
04/07/2024 -It is primarily the frequency of price changes that explains changes in aggregate consumer price inflation, write Mathias Klein, Klara Strömberg and Oskar Tysklind in a new Economic Commentary. The results are particularly clear for the recent...