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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...
New report from the e-krona pilot project
06/04/2022 -It should be possible to integrate an e-krona into banks’ and payment service providers’ own existing systems. This is the conclusion of the Riksbank after testing a technical solution for a potential e-krona. The results are summarised in a new...
BIS has determined the work programmes for the BIS Innovation Hub Nordic Centre
25/01/2022 -The Nordic Centre in Stockholm will work on projects related to offline CBDC and systems for payments data analysis. Today the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub presented the work programme for 2022.
Logotype for e-krona pilot test work
18/10/2021 -The Riksbank started a pilot project in 2019 to produce a proposal for a technical solution for an e-krona. Since then, the e-krona pilot has conducted development and testing work in a limited technical environment. The Riksbank has now produced...
No significant increase in financially vulnerable firms during the first year of the pandemic
28/10/2021 -The total number of financially vulnerable firms did not increase significantly during the first year of the pandemic compared to 2019. This is shown in a new study by Cristina Cella of the Riksbank's Financial Stability Department. However,...
David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences for 2021
11/10/2021 -The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2021 (the Nobel Prize in Economics) to David Card for his empirical contributions to labour economics and...
IMF to assess financial stability in Sweden
19/11/2021 -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will conduct a review of the financial sector and the work of the authorities on financial stability, a so-called FSAP (Financial Sector Assessment Program) in 2022. FSAPs are conducted regularly for...
The General Council of the Riksbank makes an extended review
12/11/2021 -At its ordinary meeting today, the General Council of the Riksbank decided on an extended review of whether members of the Executive Board have violated any rules of conduct in connection with the Riksbank's drafting or decision-making on...
Account of monetary policy in 2018
27/03/2019 -Monetary policy in recent years has contributed to good economic activity in Sweden and inflation around the target. The Account of monetary policy, which provides a basis for the Riksdag Committee on Finance’s annual assessment of the...
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...