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Anna Breman in Kiruna: How trade barriers affect Swedish growth and inflation
20/02/2025 -On Thursday, First Deputy Governor Anna Breman was in Kiruna, where she spoke about the Riksbank's role in society at Lapland Upper Secondary School and visited the LKAB mine. At a meeting with local businesses organised by the Norrbotten Chamber...
Erik Thedéen: Productivity – a key factor for longer-term developments
22/11/2024 -Governor Erik Thedéen today gave a speech at Danske Bank in which he described the monetary policy conducted in recent years and the interest rate decision taken in Falun on 6 November.
The Riksbank's losses do not reflect the socio-economic results
14/12/2022 -“The asset purchases made by the Riksbank during the most acute phase of the pandemic contributed to a rapid recovery of the economy and to the avoidance of a prolonged recession. The value of this was considerable.” These comments were made by...
Anna Breman: Inflation is falling, but risks remain
04/12/2023 -“Inflation is moving in the right direction, but we are not out of the woods yet.” This comment was made by First Deputy Governor Anna Breman, speaking today at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in Stockholm.
Thedéen: Property companies need to reduce debts
01/12/2023 -Many property companies have had problems since the Riksbank started raising the policy rate and now they need to reduce their debts, both to strengthen their balance sheets and to increase confidence among those who buy their shares and bonds.
The Riksbank expands its reporting of climate-related information
12/04/2022 -The Riksbank starts publishing the carbon footprint of the assets in the foreign exchange reserves. The carbon footprint of the Riksbank’s foreign exchange reserves was 298,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents per billion dollars of GDP on...
Shortage of liquidity creates difficult situations for pension managers
30/01/2023 -In September 2022, long-term UK interest rates rose sharply as the result of an unfunded budget proposal from the country’s government. This led to a liquidity crisis in many UK pension funds due to their management strategy. In a new Staff...
The Riksbank responds to Flug and Honohan’s review of monetary policy, 2015-2020
25/05/2022 -Historically, 2015-2020 was an exceptional monetary policy period, with low inflation, a negative repo rate and strongly growing balance sheets in the central banks. The Executive Board welcomes the reviewers’ work and their assessment that the...
Riksbank bond purchases also lower short-term interest rates
16/12/2021 -A stated objective of central bank bond purchases is to lower long-term interest rates. The government bond purchases of the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, have, however, also lowered interest rates for short-term holding periods. These...
How does the climate transition affect inflation?
13/04/2022 -To limit global warming, we need to consume less fossil fuels. An important part of the strategy for achieving this is to make the cost of such consumption more expensive than more environmentally friendly alternatives. This is one of the...