This study tries to get a sense of the topography of the regional banking landscape. We focus on bank holding companies … and banks with $10 billion to $50 billion in assets and look for factors that potentially explain regional bank health … from 2008 to 2013. Our dataset is a combination of bank Call Report data and confidential supervisory data. Our analysis …

bank characteristics and interconnectivity measures of interbank lending, are to minimize a measure of systemwide losses …

The alleged pro-cyclicality of bank capital (high in good times, low in bad) has received some blame for the recent … address this problem, Basel III has introduced countercyclical capital buffers for large banks. But just how cyclical is bank …

This paper studies how a worsening of the debt overhang distortion on bank lending can explain banking solvency crises … that are accompanied by a plunge of bank asset values and by a severe contraction of lending and economic activity. Since … the value of bank assets depends on economic prospects, a pessimistic view of the economy can be self-fulfilling and can …

. Consequently, fewer investors withdraw prematurely, which reduces the probability of a bank run. Safe asset holdings increase … investor welfare and may increase the bank’s provision of liquidity. …

concentration of credit relationships and the position of a bank in the network topology of the system influence the bank’s ability … by the individual banks in the European Central Bank’s (ECB) weekly repo auctions. The bids measure each bank …’s willingness to pay for liquidity since they had variable rate tenders with a “pay-your-bid” price. Controlling for bank …

probable links with the largest exposures consistent with the total lending and borrowing of each bank, yielding networks with …