CHAPTER 14 INTEREST RATE AND CURRENCY SWAPS SUGGESTED ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS QUESTIONS 1. Describe the difference between a swap broker and a swap dealer. Answer: A swap broker arranges a swap between two counterparties for a fee without taking a risk position in the swap. A swap dealer is a market maker of swaps and assumes a risk position in matching opposite sides of a swap and in assuring that each counterparty fulfills its contractual obligation
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What is the rule of 72? Well… here’s the equation: Years to double = 72 / Interest rate DO NOT reread this equation. The rule of 72 is a hard rule to explain. I will do my best to try to explain it. The answer to ‘rule of 72’ gives us a number of years. This number of years tells us how long it takes to double our money. Let’s say you have 100 dollar. The ‘rule of 72’ helps us figure out how long it will take to have 200 dollars. Scenario 1: You have invested your 100 dollars in a 3%
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Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap In 1983‚ both B.F. Goodrich and Rabobank needed to execute external financing in order to raise 50 million dollars for ongoing operations. Goodrich wanted to raise the money through debt financing‚ but because their bonds were BBB- rated‚ they would have to pay a steep interest rate for a fixed rate. However‚ the Solomon brothers had an idea. Goodrich could borrow with a floating rate that was tied to LIBOR and then swap interest payments with a Euromarket
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explanation Knut Wicksell is known for his theories on interest and prices‚ and his contribution to the formation of what is now called macroeconomics. Throughout his career‚ Wicksell was an advocate of the quantity theory. In the book Lectures in Political Economy‚ volume 2‚ Wicksell sketched out his version of the quantity theory of money. Before Wicksell‚ the standard view of the quantity theory was that there is a direct effect on prices from an increase in the money supply. Wicksell focused
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Part I – Relation between BI rate and banks interest rate A. BI rate We take the BI rate‚ as the variable being estimated‚ from the period of 2006 until 2012. We then take the average rate in each year‚ rather than taking the rate in each month. As a note to the year 2012‚ we take the average rate that ranges only from January until August. Figure 1. BI rate (Percent per Annum) Source : Indonesian Financial Statistics‚ Bank of Indonesia‚ http://www.bi.go.id/web/en/Statistik/Statistik+
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Within the foreign exchange market there are times where currency prices are misquoted. The misquoted prices can lead to an inaccuracy within the foreign market exchange. However‚ the market will readjust itself by international arbitrage which is the act of capitalizing on the divergence of misquoted prices by creating a riskless profit. Arbitrage is a strategy that investors use to not have to make an investment which includes no risk or funds being tied to a certain asset. There are three forms
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Question 1 Consider an option on a non-dividend-paying stock when the stock price is $30‚ the exercise price is $29‚ the risk-free interest rate is 5% per annum‚ the volatility is 25% per annum‚ and the time to maturity is four months. a. What is the price of the option if it is a European call? b. What is the price of the option if it is an American call? c. What is the price of the option if it is a European put? d. Verify that put–call parity holds. Question 2 Assume
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taxes investors pay on dividend income. Currently‚ any money an investor receives when a stock she owns pays a dividend to its investors is added to her total income at tax time. So dividend income is treated the same way‚ and is taxed at the same rate‚ as income from working. If the Bush plan becomes law‚ dividend income will no longer be added to an investor’s total income. As a result the dividends become exempt from taxation. The exact details of the plan are not currently known‚ because it has
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1 One-factor Interest Rate Modeling 1 In this lecture... q stochastic models for interest rates q how to derive the bond pricing equation for many fixed-income products q the structure of many popular interest rate models 2 2 Introduction In this lecture we see the ideas behind modeling interest rates us-ing a single source of randomness. This isone-factor interest rate modeling. q The model will allow the short-term interest rate‚ the spot rate‚ to follow a random walk. This model leads
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1. Describe the path of interest rates in Canada since WWII and specifically the past 2 decades. Over the past several decades the path of the interest rates were able to be recorded and charted. Strictly after World War II‚ interest rates seemed to drop for a bit‚ speculated that after the hype of the Second World War‚ there was not enough jobs for the returning soldiers‚ causing a recession. When the 50s arrived‚ the Government began to invest more into national security. This spending concerned
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