Sweden: Selected Issues

October 31, 1997

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Sweden: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper on Sweden examines developments in the government structural balance. The paper identifies the respective contributions of cyclical and structural factors in the present fiscal consolidation phase. It reviews recent developments and the medium-term fiscal outlook. The paper presents estimates of the structural and cyclical components of the government financial balance. The factors responsible for the fiscal improvement anticipated over the medium term are analyzed. The paper also analyzes the medium-term outlook for public debt, with particular attention to the sensitivity of debt dynamics to different macroeconomic conditions.

Subject: Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Labor, Public debt, Real exchange rates, Real interest rates, Unemployment

Keywords: CR, EMU entry, EMU participant, Europe, Exchange rate, Exchange rates, ISCR, Nominal shock, Output gap estimate, Outside EMU, Real exchange rates, Real interest rates, Revenue elasticity, Single currency, Sweden, Unemployment

Publication Details

Pages:

110
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1997/096
Stock No:

1SWEEA0011997
ISBN:

9781451835847
ISSN:

1934-7685

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