This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are clustered by population share of visible immigrants...

This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to...

Commercial Real Estate (CRE) debt constitute a large portion of corporate debt. Due to the funding structure this creates substantial risks for the financial system and the real economy, in general, due to broader spillover effects. Stress tests, conducted to assess the resilience of CRE sector,...

This paper discusses Sweden's Financial System Stability Assessment. Sweden recovered rapidly from the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis, and gross domestic product reached its pre-pandemic level in mid-2021. In the context of a robust supervision and regulation framework, the financial sector...

This Selected Issues paper examines Sweden's corporate vulnerabilities and focuses on commercial real estate (CRE). Liquidity premia on funding costs will undermine CRE profits and lead to the increase in credit risk premia, amplifying the original shock. Stress tests indicate that CREs face...

This 2023 Article IV Consultation highlights that following the pandemic, Sweden's economy experienced a strong recovery, which continued well into 2022. Sweden experienced a strong post-pandemic rebound in 2021-22 but is potentially heading into a recession. The fiscal stance is slightly...