Craig, Ben R.; von Peter, Goetz - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2010
lend to each other directly but through money center banks acting as intermediaries. We capture the concept of tiering by … developing a core-periphery model, and devise a procedure for fitting the model to real-world networks. Using Bundesbank data on … bilateral interbank exposures among 1800 banks, we find strong evidence of tiering in the German banking system. Moreover …