Press Archive

2008-08-27
Swedish Economy Entering a Contractionary Phase
A weaker tendency in exports and in both consumption and investment will curb growth in Sweden in 2008 and 2009. Employment will be down next year, particularly in manufacturing, and unemployment will...

2008-08-27
Business sector forecasts reduced employment
The confidence indicator for the Swedish business sector fell five points between July and August and is considerably below the average for the period 2003-2008. All sectors made a negative...

2008-08-27
Economic Tendency Survey
Business and consumer. August 2008
Sentiment in the Swedish economy was even gloomier in August. The Economic Tendency Indicator, which measures business and consumer confidence in the economy, fell from 88.5 in July to 85.5 in August....

2008-08-27
Consumer confidence in economy still gloomier than normal
Consumer confidence in the economic situation was somewhat less gloomy in August that the previous month. The Consumer Confidence Indicator (CCI) rose 1.7 units to -16.5. Household attitudes to...

2008-08-25
Economic Assessment of the Climate Committee´s Action Plan for Swedish Climate Policy
The National Institute of Economic Research (NIER) was, commissioned by the Government in March 2008to analyze the proposals of the Parliamentary Climate Committee (M2007/03) for achieving Sweden´s...

2008-08-25
The NIER´s Conceptual Framework for Fiscal Policy
This report describes how the National Institute of Economic Research (NIER) reaches its fiscal policy assessments, in regard to the trade-off between the goal of stabilization and targets for public...