The global financial crisis (GFC) triggered the use of macroprudential policies imposed on the banking sector. Using bank-level panel data for Israel for the period 2004–2019, we find that domestic macroprudential measures changed the composition of bank credit growth but did not affect the...

This work uses data from the Israeli Household Expenditure Survey for 2003 - 2011 to assess the effect of changes in home and rent prices on households' private consumption expenditure. We find that an increase in home prices acts to increase owners' consumption, particularly in the intermediate...