Determinants of Interest Rate for Individual Securities You are
considering an investment in 30-year bonds issued by Borro Corporation. The bonds have no special covenants. The Wall Street Journal reports that 1-year T-bills are currently earning 2.50 percent. Your broker has determined the following information about economic activity and Borro Corporation bonds: Real interest rate = 1.00% Default risk premium = 1.25% Liquidity risk premium = 0.75% Maturity risk premium = 0.50% a. What is the inflation premium? Expected (IP) = i – Real Interest Rate b. What is the fair interest rate on Borro Corporation 30-year bonds? ij* = inflation premium Real interest rate Default risk premium Liquidity risk premium Maturity risk premium Unbiased Expectations Theory Suppose that the current one-year rate (one-
year spot rate) and expected one-year T-bill rates over the following three years (i.e., years 2, 3, and 4, respectively) are as follows: 1R1=7%, E(2r1) =9%, E(3r1) =6.0% E(4r1)=4% Using the unbiased expectations theory, calculate the current (long-term) rates for one-, two-, three-, and four-year-maturity Treasury securities. Show your answers in percentage form to 3 decimal places. Note that: Rate for a two year security = [(1 1R1)(1 E(2r1))]1/2 – 1 Rate for a three year security = [(1 1R1)(1 E(2r1))(1 E(3r1))]1/3 – 1 Rate for a four year security = [(1 1R1)(1 E(2r1))(1 E(3r1))(1 E(4r1))]1/4 – 1 Liquidity Premium Hypothesis One-year Treasury bills currently earn 2.50
percent. You expected that one year from now, one-year Treasury bill rates will increase to 2.75 percent. The liquidity premium on two-year securities is 0.15 percent. If the liquidity theory is correct, what should the current rate be on two-year Treasury securities? 1R2 = [(1 Real interest rate)(1 Year 2 Rate Liquidity risk premium)] 1/2 – 1 Zero Coupon Bond Price Calculate the price of a zero coupon bond (no interest payments) that matures in 15 years if the market interest rate is 7.25 percent (most bonds pay interest semi-annually, so unless specified, always use semi-annual compounding). Current Yield What’s the current yield of a 5.0 percent coupon corporate bond quoted at a price of 80.00? Yield = Payment/Price
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