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Erik Thedéen at the Committee on Finance: High inflation and rising interest rates are testing the resilience of the Swedish financial system
31/01/2023 -“After many years of low inflation and very low interest rates, increasing asset prices and rising indebtedness, it is uncertain how economic agents can cope with a rapid rise in inflation and interest rates.” These were the words of Erik...
Project Icebreaker proposes a new architecture for cross-border retail CBDCs
06/03/2023 -The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the central banks of Israel, Norway and Sweden have concluded Project Icebreaker, which studied the potential benefits and challenges of using retail central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in...
Anna Breman in Falkenberg: Inflation needs to become low and stable again
08/03/2023 -High inflation affects everyone. But the higher inflation is, the greater the differences are between households. A typical family with children currently faces inflation of around 17 per cent, compared to the average of around 12 per cent,...
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...
The Riksbank on banking concerns in the USA
15/03/2023 -Governor Erik Thedéen at the Committee on Finance on 14 March: “We are following developments in the financial markets, and we currently consider there to be no risk to financial stability in Sweden. Among other aspects, Swedish banks are subject...
Governor Erik Thedéen visits Gothenburg
07/03/2023 -Today, Riksbank Governor Erik Thedéen is visiting Gothenburg to present the Riksbank's latest monetary policy decision and discuss inflation and interest rates.
The Riksbank, six other central banks and BIS in collaboration on principles for central bank digital currency CBDC
09/10/2020 -A group of seven central banks together with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today published a report identifying the foundational principles necessary for any publicly available CBDCs to help central banks meet their public policy...
Zombie firms in Sweden do not constitute a threat to either financial stability or economic growth
29/09/2020 -In most developed countries, there has been an increase in economically weak companies, known as “zombie firms”. Cristina Cella has studied Swedish zombie firms. Her analysis shows that zombie firms have not increased dramatically in Sweden over...
GDP development in Sweden relative to other countries in the wake of Covid-19
12/06/2020 -Swedish GDP closely follows that of our most important trading partners. In the crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic there are nevertheless a number of factors indicating that the Swedish economy could be less negatively affected in the...
Special Drawing Rights back on the agenda during the coronavirus pandemic
16/09/2020 -The Special Drawing Right (SDR) was originally created out of the need for a neutral reserve currency following the Second World War. It was intended to increase liquidity in the global financial system and thereby support international trade.