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This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of …
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When Sweden left the gold standard on September 27, 1931, the Swedish government declared that the aim of monetary … targeting officially became for the first time the goal for a central bank. Soon after, the Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) sent a …
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After World War II and prior to the financial deregulation of the 1980s, monetary policy in Sweden as well as in other …
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This paper explores the evolution of Swedish fiscal policy from one extreme approach to another one in less than four decades. After the demise of the Bretton Woods-system in the early 1970s, Swedish fiscal policy was based on a Keynesian approach with the goal to stabilize the business cycle...
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that gradually emerged in Sweden after the deep economic crisis of the early 1990s. By now, Swedish public finances stand … out among the strongest in Europe. Recent Swedish macroeconomic performance has been impressive. As Sweden and Portugal … are small open economies in the periphery of Europe, Sweden may serve as a fiscal model for Portugal. Policy lessons are …
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We assess Lars E O Svensson's prominent critique of the Swedish Riksbank. We reject his two major claims: first that the Riksbank has anchored inflation expectations at the 2 percent inflation target, and second, that the original version of the Phillips curve, based constant inflation...
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Should an inflation-targeting central bank have an explicit tolerance band around its inflation target? This paper provides an answer derived from the Swedish experience. The Riksbank is exceptional in the sense that it first adopted and later abolished an explicit band and is currently...
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The purpose of this report is to derive lessons from inflation targeting in Sweden for the choice of the future … integration. In other words, the Riksbank has behaved as if Sweden had a fixed exchange rate to the euro. Our analysis clearly …
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This paper discusses the history and future of the Swedish fiscal framework. First, we claim that the fiscal framework has contributed to a sharp decline in the debt-to-GDP ratio, from one of the highest to one of the lowest in the European Union. Next, we focus on the future. Despite its...
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This paper examines the Swedish experience of forward guidance 2007-2018. We focus on three interrelated issues: first, the effects of forward guidance on the discussion within the Board of Directors of the Riksbank, second, on the communication between the Riksbank and the public, and third, on...
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