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Explain why you would be more or less willing to buy long-term Air Canada bonds under the following circumstances:
Suppose that the interest rate is 5%. Which of the following statements are true and which are false?
What is the real interest rate if the nominal interest rate is 8% and the expected inflation rate is 10% over the course of a year
This is an extremely unusual event because no other country in the world has seen negative interest rates during the last fifty years. How could this happen?
As an example of how the present value concept can be used, let s assume that you just hit the $20 million jackpot in a lottery, which promises you a payment of $1 million for the next twenty years. Y
During the Great Depression, Tobin"s q A) rose dramatically, as did real interest rates.fell to unprecedentedly low levels.
You are the holder of a variable-coupon bond that is convertible to a fixed-coupon bond. If you expect interest rates to rise, should you exercise your conversion option? Explain. What if you expect i
Suppose you expect interest rates to increase in the future. You are not indifferent toward interest rate risk and the desire to maximize expected return. If you hold a portfolio consisting of 50 perc
Suppose you hold a corporate bond that is convertible into the firm"s stock. Stock prices are falling and interest rates are also falling. Would it be a good idea to exercise your conversion option un
David Hoffman purchases a $1,000 20-year bond with an 8 percent coupon rate (annual payments). Yields on comparable bonds are 10 percent. David expects that
Define interest rate risk. Explain the two types of interest rate risk. How can an investor with a given holding period use duration to reduce interest rate risk?
Calculate the duration for a $1,000, 4-year bond with a 4.5 percent annual coupon, currently selling at par. Use the bond"s duration to estimate the percentage change in the bond"s price for a decreas
A commercial bank made a 5-year term loan at 13 percent. The bank"s economics department forecasts that 1 and 3 years in the future the 2-year interest rate will be 12 percent and 14 percent, respecti
A new-issue municipal bond rated Aaa by Moody"s Investors Service is priced to yield 8 percent. If you are in the 33 percent tax bracket, what yield would you need to earn on a taxable bond to be indi
Under which scenario, rising interest rates or falling interest rates, would a bond investor be most likely to exercise a put option on a bond? Explain.
What is the yield-to-maturity of a corporate bond with a 3-year maturity, 5 percent coupon (semiannual payments), and $1,000 face value if the bond sold for $978.30?
Find the price of a corporate bond maturing in 5 years that has a 5 percent coupon (annual payments), a $1,000 face value, and an AA rating. A local newspaper"s financial section reports that the yiel
Explain the sense in which the Fed is independent of the federal government. How independent is the Fed in reality? What is your opinion about the importance of the Fed"s independence for the U.S. eco
Explain why Regulation Q caused difficulties for banks and other depository institutions, especially during periods of rising interest rates.
Explain why the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is considered so powerful. What are its major powers and which is the most important?
A new production technology for making vitamins is invented by a college professor who decides not to patent it. Thus, it is available for anybody to copy and put into use.
How may you apply what you learned about supply and demand from the simulation to your workplace or your understanding of a real-world product with which you are familiar?
Interest Rates and ATM Trips.Carlos, who lives in a country where interest rates are very high, goes to an ATM every day to get $10 of spending money
Microhard has issued a bond with the following characteristics:
How can you take advantage of these rates to earn a riskless profit? Assume that the Pure Expectation Theory for interest rates holds.