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The Riksbank's calendar updated for the period June–December 2026
08/12/2025 -The Riksbank's calendar has been updated with the dates of the Executive Board meetings and the publication of the Monetary Policy Report, the Monetary Policy Update, the Monetary Policy Minutes and the Financial Stability Report during the...
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...
How a monetary policy decision is made
07/04/2022 -The coronavirus crisis has tested the flexibility of the Riksbank's decision-making with regard to monetary policy. But essentially, the preparation process is the same now as prior to the crisis. In an Economic Commentary, Maria Sjödin, adviser...
Account of Monetary Policy 2021 – Support for the recovery in the pandemic
24/03/2022 -The coronavirus pandemic continued to have a marked impact on economic developments during 2021. The sharp fall in GDP from the start of the pandemic was recovered and the employment rate rose to the same level as before the pandemic. CPIF...
Social psychology factors in decision-making
10/04/2024 -Social psychology factors in decision-making In a famous experiment in the early 1950s, social psychologist Solomon Asch found something interesting.[19] See Asch (1951). A group of trial subjects were asked to compare two boxes: There were...
Summary
23/04/2024 -Summary In recent decades, the persistent global decline in both nominal and real interest rates has been one of the more prominent macroeconomic trends. There is a broad consensus that this decline is largely due to changes in several...
Some key features of behavioural economics research
10/04/2024 -Some key features of behavioural economics research The role of psychological factors in economic decisions has been recognised since the beginning of economics. Adam Smith, sometimes regarded as the Father of Economics, analysed psychological...
How we view risk and uncertainty – prospect theory
10/04/2024 -How we view risk and uncertainty – prospect theory An important part of behavioural economics is how we view risk and uncertainty. In a 1979 article, Daniel Kahneman, together with Amos Tversky, launched the so-called prospect theory, which...
Behind the trend in long-term interest rates...
23/04/2024 -Behind the trend in long-term interest rates... One of the more prominent macroeconomic trends in recent decades has been the prolonged negative trend in nominal and real interest rates (see Figure 1).[3] The real interest rate is approximately...
A simple monetary policy framework
10/04/2024 -A simple monetary policy framework To describe how insights from behavioural economics could help monetary policy, we use a simple framework based both on the relationship between the interest rate, the real economy and inflation, and on the...