Volume/Issue: 2010/131
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
17
May
2010
ISBN: 9781455204595
This paper discusses key findings of the Detailed Assessment of Observance of Standards and Codes in Sweden. The assessment reveals that the laws and regulations on banking activities and their supervision are in p...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Desmond Lachman
,
Ramana Ramaswamy
,
J. Green
,
Robert Hagemann
, and
Adam Bennett
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
1995
ISBN: 9781557754868
This section describes the main features of the Swedish labor market. The main trends in the labor market are first outlined, focusing on developments during the 1990s. This is followed by an evaluation of t...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Desmond Lachman
,
Ramana Ramaswamy
,
J. Green
,
Robert Hagemann
, and
Adam Bennett
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
1995
ISBN: 9781557754868
After decades of expansion, reform of the social security system in Sweden has become the focus of attention as a result of the country’s overall budget crisis since the early 1990s. Although the need for pe...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Desmond Lachman
,
Ramana Ramaswamy
,
J. Green
,
Robert Hagemann
, and
Adam Bennett
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
1995
ISBN: 9781557754868
This section provides an alternative perspective on the stance of fiscal policy in Sweden. In particular, it utilizes generational accounting to assess in part the extent to which policies adopted in Novembe...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Desmond Lachman
,
Ramana Ramaswamy
,
J. Green
,
Robert Hagemann
, and
Adam Bennett
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
1995
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557754868.084
ISBN: 9781557754868
Sweden's economy in the early 1990s has been characterized by a deep recession, high unemployment, a ballooning public sector budgete deficit, and a decline in the value of the currency- developments that have rais...
Volume/Issue: 2010/131
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
17
May
2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455204595.002
ISBN: 9781455204595
This paper discusses key findings of the Detailed Assessment of Observance of Standards and Codes in Sweden. The assessment reveals that the laws and regulations on banking activities and their supervision are in p...
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
10
September
1997
ISBN: 9781557756459
There are many different causes behind bank failures, with losses in the credit portfolio being only one, albeit an important one. The theme for this paper is based on bank problems emanating from substantia...
Series: Nordic Council of Ministers
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Publication Date:
01
June
2005
ISBN: 9789289311632
The development of European policies on air pollution prevention is currently in an intensive phase. The European Commission Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) programme is preparing an air pollution strategy and the Conv...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Desmond Lachman
,
Ramana Ramaswamy
,
J. Green
,
Robert Hagemann
, and
Adam Bennett
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
1995
ISBN: 9781557754868
Sweden’s macroeconomic performance in the early 1990s differed in a number of fundamental respects from its performance during most of the postwar period. Distinctive features of macroeconomic developments i...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Desmond Lachman
,
Ramana Ramaswamy
,
J. Green
,
Robert Hagemann
, and
Adam Bennett
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
1995
ISBN: 9781557754868
The 1992 devaluation of the Swedish krona fundamentally altered the trading circumstances of the Swedish economy. It did so in much the same manner as did the devaluations of other European economies followi...