“…In the herein case, the survival ratio is used to measure how persistent interbank lending relations are over time. Persistency in lending relations is particularly important in financial literature because repeated relations have been documented as determinant of liquidity exchanges in money markets (see Furfine, 1999, Furfine, 2001, Cocco, et al, 2009, Affinito, 2012, Afonso, et al, 2013, Capera-Romero, et al, 2015, Hüser, 2016, and -thus-a vital factor in the evolution and stability of financial markets. Onnela, et al (2003) introduce two survival ratios, namely the single-step survival ratio and the multi-step survival ratio.…”