The Committee on Finance has commissioned two international experts to evaluate the Riksbank’s monetary policy during the period 2015–2024

The Committee on Finance has appointed Carolyn Wilkins and Morten Ravn to evaluate Swedish monetary policy during the period 2015‒2024. 

The evaluators will analyse i.a. whether monetary policy during the period has been well balanced, and what effects the pursued monetary policy has had on the real economy and financial development in Sweden, in particular the effects of the Riksbank’s securities purchases. The evaluation is to be concluded by the end of 2025 at the latest.

Carolyn Wilkins is visiting Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University, an external member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee and former Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada. She has previously conducted a review of the Reserve Bank of Australia. 

Morten Ravn is Professor of Economics at University College London and his fields of research include international macroeconomics as well as applied and quantitative macroeconomics. He has previously participated in the SNS Economic Policy Council.

Four previous long-term evaluations 

This is the Committee on Finance’s fifth external evaluation of the Riksbank’s monetary policy over a longer time period. The most recent evaluation, for the period 2015‒2020, was carried out by former Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Patrick Honohan and former Governor of the Bank of Israel Professor Karnit Flug. Previously, Swedish monetary policy during different periods has been evaluated on behalf of the Committee on Finance by former Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King, and Professors Marvin Goodfriend, Frederic Mishkin, Francesco Giavazzi, Charles Goodhart and Jean-Charles Rochet.

Media contact

Thomas Hagberg, Committee Secretary, Committee on Finance, telephone: +46-8-786 46 06, email: thomas.hagberg@riksdagen.se