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The Performance of the ’Interest Rate-Weapon’ : A Study on the Long-Run Relationship between STIBOR T/N and the Inflation in Sweden

This study uses an ARDL(p, q)-model to express a long-run relationship between ‘Stockholm Interbank Offered Rate Tomorrow/Next’ and the inflation in Sweden between 2007 and 2016 to see how efficient the ‘interest rate-weapon’ as a monetary policy-tool have been in affecting the inflation. The study shows that no such relationship can be expressed – hence the conclusion that the expectations of inflation are the most important variable affecting the inflation, and that the agents in the Swedish economy have rational expectations and a trust in the central bank of Sweden to reach its target of a 2 percent inflation rate.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-34879
Date January 2018
CreatorsDahlén, Anton
PublisherSödertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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