## Sweden: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, September 5, 2013_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: September 5, 2013
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484382554.002

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### Summary findings
- This 2013 Article IV Consultation examines the performance of Sweden’s fiscal policies to counter effects of global financial crisis.
- Economic growth in Sweden has been moderate since global financial crisis of 2008–2009.
- The IMF report posits that with potential growth moderately weaker and the natural rate of unemployment to remain elevated, policies should focus on growth-enhancing reforms, especially in the labor market.
- The report suggests that good policies that secure the soundness of Swedish international banking groups are expected to benefit borrowers not only in Sweden but across the region.

### Policy recommendations and analysis
- Focus policy efforts on growth-enhancing reforms, with emphasis on the labor market.
- Strengthen policies to secure the soundness of Swedish international banking groups to extend benefits to borrowers domestically and regionally.
- Fiscal policy assessed in the context of countering effects of the global financial crisis; performance reviewed in the 2013 Article IV Consultation.

### Key statistics and publication metadata
- Pages: 65
- Volume: 2013
- Issue: 277
- Series: Country Report No. 2013/277
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484382554.002
- Stock No: 1SWEEA2013002
- ISBN: 9781484382554
- ISSN: 1934-7685
- Publication date shown on page: September 5, 2013
- Format references present: Chicago citation example provided

### Subjects and keywords covered
- Subjects: Banking, Contingent liabilities, Covered bonds, Financial institutions, Fiscal policy, Fiscal space, Housing prices, Labor, Prices, Public financial management (PFM), Unemployment rate
- Keywords: Baltics, bank, borrower, Contingent liabilities, cover pool, Covered bonds, CR, depositor, Fiscal space, fund staff calculation, General government net lending, Global, Housing prices, ISCR, output gap, output gap estimate, target rule, Unemployment rate, uninsured depositor

*International Monetary Fund. Country Report No. 2013/277 (2013).*

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