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Staff Memo: Effects of monetary policy in small open economies
01/06/2026 -Inflation targeting has now been conducted in many small open economies, such as Sweden’s, for around three decades. A new staff memo analyses the impact of monetary policy on GDP, unemployment, inflation and exchange rates in ten countries with...
Press conference on the IMF’s assessment of the Swedish economy
11/05/2026 -On Wednesday 13 May, a delegation from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, will conclude its visit to Sweden. The visit forms part of the regular consultations that the IMF has with its member countries, the so-called Article IV consultations.
The Riksdag has decided to assign the Riksbank responsibility for setting the countercyclical capital buffer
05/03/2026 -The Riksdag decided yesterday to adopt the government’s proposal on “Development of the macroprudential policy area”, which includes changes to the amortisation requirement and the mortgage cap. In addition, the Riksbank is assigned...
Consultation response to the “Evaluation of Sweden’s monetary policy 2015–2024”
04/03/2026 -The Executive Board and General Council of the Riksbank have today issued their respective consultation responses to the Committee on Finance's external evaluation of monetary policy 2015–2024 by Morten Ravn and Carolyn Wilkins. The report was...
The e-krona pilot phase 4: offline payments with e-krona
20/03/2024 -The Riksbank's e-krona pilot is now releasing its fourth and final report, which analyses how an e-krona could work in practice, if a decision is taken to issue a central bank digital currency. In the report, the Riksbank has further...
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...
The Riksbank’s Financial Markets Survey: Fixed income and foreign exchange markets have improved since last autumn
25/04/2024 -The Swedish fixed income and foreign exchange markets have improved since the autumn. This is according to market participants who responded to the Riksbank’s Financial Markets Survey conducted in March.
Committee on Finance hearing on the Riksbank's operations and monetary policy
12/03/2024 -On Tuesday, the entire Executive Board took part in an open hearing at the Committee on Finance about the Riksbank's operations and its Annual Report for 2023, as well as current monetary policy.
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...