Riksbanken - Rosenberg: Some questions regarding current monetary policy

DATE 3/16/2006
CONTACT Tomas Lundberg, press officer, tel. +46-8-787 0215
Deputy Governor Irma Rosenberg gave the introductory speech at the Swedish Sawmill Managers Association’s annual general meeting in Stockholm on Thursday. The theme of her speech was current monetary policy.

”Following our most recent decisions in January and February to raise the repo rate by a total of 0.5 percentage points, the debate on monetary policy has continued. This is quite natural, as we have raised the repo rate for the first time in several years. Today I intend to take up three questions that seem to recur in the discussion of current monetary policy. I hope that this will contribute to greater understanding of how we conduct monetary policy,” began Ms Rosenberg." Read more..