Economists

Nitzan Tzur-Ilan

Senior Research Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Nitzan Tzur-Ilan is a senior research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She joined the Dallas Fed in 2021.

Her research interests include household finance, real estate, financial regulation and climate change.

Tzur-Ilan received her PhD in finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a postdoctoral fellow in finance at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Prior to her postdoc, she worked for the research department of the Central Bank of Israel.

Publications

“More than Shelter: The Effect of Rental Eviction Moratoria on Household Well-Being,” with Xudong An and Stuart A. Gabriel, AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 112, 2022, pp. 308–12. https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20221108.
“The Effect of LTV-Based Risk Weights on House Prices: Evidence from an Israeli Macroprudential Policy,” with Steven Laufer, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 124, July 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2021.103349.
“Macroprudential Policy: Implementation, Effects, and Lessons,” Israel Economic Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 2019, pp. 39–71.

Working Papers

“Effects of Wildfires on Credit Markets,” with Xudong An and Stuart Gabriel, 2022.
“Gender and Collaboration in the Federal Reserve System,” with Deepa D. Datta, 2022.
“The Real Consequences of LTV Limits on Housing Choices,” 2020.
“The Determinants of Fiscal and Monetary Policies During the Covid-19 Crisis,” with Effi Benmelech, NBER Working Paper 24761, 2020.
“Does Location Matter? Evidence on Differential Mortgage Pricing in Israel,” with Natalya Presman, Bank of Israel Working Paper 2019.10, 2019.
“Assessing the Impact of Macroprudential Tools: The Case of Israel,” with Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg and Roi Frayberg, BIS Papers chapters, in Macroprudential policy frameworks, implementation and relationships with other policies, vol. 94, 2017, pp. 107–218.