Economics (edited by Avi Ben-Bassat), was published in 2002. While each book considers the Israeli economy at a different stage …This paper reviews six English-language books on the economy of Israel. Each book was written or edited by Israelis …, and each is from a different decade. The earliest book, Don Patinkin's The Israel Economy: The First Decade, was written …

How do financial frictions affect the response of an economy to aggregate shocks? In this paper, we address this … liquid assets to smooth individual income shocks. We show that the response of this economy to aggregate shocks depends on … reserves and the response of the economy tends to be larger. In this case, agents expect to be liquidity constrained and, due …