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The negative policy rate – how has it affected market rates?
22/01/2019 -The negative policy rate has had a strong pass-through to bond market yields and lending rates to firms. Lending rates to households have also fallen, although the initial pass-through was weaker. To sum up, negative policy rates have contributed...
Ingves, Jansson and Skingsley to participate in IMF Spring Meeting
12/04/2019 -On 12-14 April, the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank will take place in Washington D.C. The Swedish delegation will include Governor of the Riksbank Stefan Ingves, Deputy Governor Per Jansson, Deputy...
Riksbank to gear up in 2021
17/12/2020 -2021 will be an intensive year for the Riksbank. A new reference rate is to be introduced, crisis preparedness is to be strengthened and new digital working and communication forms are to be developed. The RIX payment system is to be developed...
The Riksbank is considering publishing a reference rate
26/09/2019 -The Riksbank is considering calculating and publishing one or more so-called overnight rates during 2020. The aim is to better be able to evaluate the implementation of monetary policy. One of the interest rates being developed by the Riksbank...
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo och Michael Kremer awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences for 2019
14/10/2019 -The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2019 (the Nobel Prize in Economics) to Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,...
Prosperity growth in Sweden compares well with other countries
06/11/2019 -Since the financial crisis, prosperity has had weaker development in many countries, including Sweden. The weak development in Sweden over the past three years has led to a discussion of how prosperity in Sweden compares with that of other...
Opinion still divided on the functioning of the fixed-income market
02/12/2019 -Opinion remains divided on how the fixed-income market is functioning, but more participants consider that the market generally functions poorly or very poorly than consider that it functions well. This is shown by the Riksbank's Financial...
Riksbank publishes further information on its corporate bond purchases
01/02/2021 -With the aim of further increasing transparency regarding the Riksbank’s purchases of securities, a list of prices and volumes for all of the Riksbank’s corporate bond purchases will be published for the first time today.
Riksbank reports currency exchanges for a self-financed foreign exchange reserve
01/03/2021 -On the first Monday in every month the Riksbank reports the previous month’s foreign currency exchanges made for the purpose of having appropriate long-term funding for the foreign exchange reserve. The exchanges of Swedish krona for euro and US...
Riksbank takes sustainability into account when purchasing corporate bonds
15/03/2021 -With effect from January 2021, the Riksbank will only offer to purchase bonds issued by companies deemed to comply with international standards and norms for sustainability, The authors of an Economic Commentary describe the background to the...