New design for Monetary Policy Reports
Date
20/04/2015
A content with a greater focus on the Executive Board's monetary policy deliberations and reasoning and a new layout that makes the text clearer and easier to read. This is the form that the Monetary Policy Reports will take when they are given a new design from and including the monetary policy announcement on 29 April. From then on, Monetary Policy Reports will be published in connection with all six of the planned monetary policy meetings that are held each year.
When the Monetary Policy Report is published in April, the readers will see a new structure and layout.
"We have redesigned the reports to give the monetary policy deliberations and reasoning a more central role. Following the financial crisis, it is natural to focus more on financial conditions, risks and uncertainties. This analysis will feature more prominently in the new reports. In general there will be more analysis and reasoning and less reporting of data," says Marianne Nessén, Head of the Monetary Policy Department.
The Executive Board of the Riksbank normally makes six monetary policy decisions per year. Previously, the Riksbank has published a Monetary Policy Report in connection with three of these meetings and a Monetary Policy Update in connection with the other three. Now there will instead be six reports per year, one in connection with each of the decisions.
"This will better reflect the work we actually do. We produce complete forecasts ahead of every monetary policy decision so there is really no reason to use different names for the reports," says Ms Nessén.
The new reports will be somewhat shorter than the current versions and will be launched in connection with the publication of the monetary policy decision on 29 April.
