Banks' interactions vary in nature from competition to mutually beneficial trading with one another. This creates important links across markets, implying that bank strategies cannot be considered in isolation in a single market. I set up a model where profit-maximizing banks jointly determine...

In this paper, we study how the interbank market could impact deposit competition and bank profits. We first document two stylized facts: the net interbank funding ratio is negatively correlated with net interest margin (NIM), as well as with the cost-to-income ratio (CIR). To rationalize these...