Norges Bank setter styringsrenten. Pengemarkedsrentene påvirkes av styringsrenten og av forventninger om fremtidig styringsrente. Endringer i styringsrenten og pengemarkedsrentene påvirker bankenes innskudds- og utlånsrenter. ...

Population growth in Norway over the past 10-15 years has been strong, while residential construction activity has been fairly low. At the same time, household size continues to decline. The increase in the number of ...

How does the management and resolution of the current crisis compare with the response of the Nordic countries in the early 1990s, widely regarded as exemplary? We argue that, while intervention has been prompter, the ...

The strong growth in payment card use continued in 2016. Growth in the use of international payment cards was particularly strong, reflecting a sharp increase in payments over the internet and in the use of mobile payment ...

The use of payment cards continues to increase. In 2018, the number of transactions using Norwegian payment cards totalled 2.5 billion and the average number of card transactions per inhabitant was 475. The average value ...

The Covid-19 outbreak that began in spring 2020 has affected payment methods, which the statistics clearly show. The number of card payments made at physical points of sale declined in the period between 2019 and 2020. At ...

Norway is one of the countries in the world with the highest annual use of payment cards per inhabitant. On average, each Norwegian used a card 531 times in 2022. In 2022, 86 percent of payments made at physical payment ...