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 …

network connections of the banks. The latter are in our application observed interbank exposures among German bank holding …-many-to-fail mechanics such that bank distress is less likely if many peers already experienced distress. …