This paper investigates the relationship between bank funding costs and solvency for a large sample of euro area banks … relationship between bank solvency, on the one hand, and senior bond yields, term deposit rates and overnight deposit rates, on the … other. The analysis finds a significant negative relationship between bank solvency and the different types of funding costs …

regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity … requirements leads to lower bank losses in default at the cost of an increased likelihood of default. Combining liquidity … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …