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CHAPTER 6 Flashcards

1
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Bonds are a securities sold by governments and corporations to raise money
from investors today in exchange for promised future payments.

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YES

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2
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The time remaining until the repayment date is known as the term of the bond.

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3
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By convention the coupon rate is expressed as an effective annual rate.

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NO

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4
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Bonds typically make two types of payments to their holders.

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5
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The bond certificate indicates the amounts and dates of all payments to be made.

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6
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The only cash payments the investor will receive from a zero coupon bond are the interest payments that are paid up until the maturity date.

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NO

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The bond certificate typically specifies that the coupons will be paid periodically until the maturity date of the bond.

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8
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Usually the face value of a bond is repaid at maturity.

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9
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Treasury bills are zero-coupon bonds.

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10
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Bond traders typically quote bond prices rather than bond yields.

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NO

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11
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The yield to maturity is typically stated as an annual rate by multiplying the
calculated YTM by the number of coupon payment per year, thereby converting
it to an APR.

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12
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Zero-coupon bonds always trade at a discount.

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13
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Because we can convert any bond price into a yield, and vice versa, bond prices
and yields are often used interchangeably.

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14
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The IRR of an investment in a bond is given a special name, the yield to maturity
(YTM).

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15
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Unlike the case of bonds that pay coupons, for zero-coupon bonds, there is no
simple formula to solve for the yield to maturity directly.

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16
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One advantage of quoting the yield to maturity rather than the price is that the
yield is independent of the face value of the bond.

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17
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The IRR of an investment opportunity is the discount rate at which the NPV of
the investment opportunity is equal to zero.

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18
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The yield to maturity for a zero-coupon bond is the return you will earn as an
investor from holding the bond to maturity and receiving the promised face
value payment.

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19
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When prices are quoted in the bond market, they are conventionally quoted in
increments of $1000.

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NO

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20
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Zero-coupon bonds are also called pure discount bonds.

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21
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Coupon bonds always trade for a discount.

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22
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If the bond trades at a discount, and investor who buys the bond will earn a return both from receiving the coupons and from receiving a face value that exceeds the price paid for the bond.

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23
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At any point in time, changes in market interest rates affect a bond’s yield to maturity and its price.

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24
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Most coupon bond issuers choose a coupon rate so that the bonds will initially trade at, or very near to, par.

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25
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If a coupon bond’s yield to maturity exceeds its coupon rate, the present value of
its cash flows at the yield to maturity will be greater than its face value.

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NO

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26
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The price of the bond will drop by the amount of the coupon immediately after
the coupon is paid.

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YES

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27
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A bond trades at par when its coupon rate is equal to its yield to maturity.

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28
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The clean price of a bond is adjusted for accrued interest.

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29
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If a bond trades at a premium, its yield to maturity will exceed its coupon rate.

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NO

30
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When a coupon-paying bond is trading at a premium, an investor’s return from the coupons is diminished by receiving a face value less than the price paid for the bond.

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YES

31
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Holding fixed the bond’s yield to maturity, for a bond not trading at par, the present value of the bond’s remaining cash flows changes as the time to maturity decreases.

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YES

32
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A bond that trades at a premium is said to trade above par.

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YES

33
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Prices of bonds with lower durations are more sensitive to interest rate changes.

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NO

34
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Coupon bonds may trade at a discount, at a premium, or at par.

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YES

35
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The sensitivity of a bond’s price changes in interest rates is the bond’s duration.

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YES

36
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When a bond is trading at a discount, the price increase between coupons will
exceed the drop when a coupon is paid, so the bond’s price will rise and its discount will decline as time passes.

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YES

37
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The discount rate that sets the present value of the promised bond payments equal to the current market price of the bond is called the current yield.

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NO

38
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The discount rate that sets the present value of the promised bond payments equal to the current market price of the bond is called the zero coupon yield.

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NO

39
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The discount rate that sets the present value of the promised bond payments equal to the current market price of the bond is called the yield to maturity.

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YES

40
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The discount rate that sets the present value of the promised bond payments equal to the current market price of the bond is called the discount yield.

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NO

41
Q

By convention, practitioners always plot the yield of the most senior issued
bonds, termed the on-the-run-bonds.

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NO

42
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We can determine the no-arbitrage price of a coupon bond by discounting its
cash flows using the zero-coupon yields.

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YES

43
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The yield to maturity of a coupon bond is a weighted average of the yields on
the zero-coupon bonds.

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YES

44
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If the zero coupon yield curve is upward sloping, the resulting yield to maturity
decreases with the coupon rate of the bond.

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YES

45
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When the yield curve is flat, all zero-coupon and coupon-paying bonds will
have the same yield, independent of their maturities and coupon rates.

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YES

46
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Given the spot interest rates, we can determine the price and yield of any other
default-free bond.

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YES

47
Q

As the coupon increases, earlier cash flows become relatively less important than
later cash flows in the calculation of the present value.

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NO

48
Q

When U.S. bond traders refer to “the yield curve,” they are often referring to the
coupon-paying Treasury yield curve.

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YES

49
Q

A corporate bond which receives a BBB rating from Standard and Poor’s is considered an investment grade bond.

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YES

50
Q

Because the cash flows promised by the bond are the most that bondholders can
hope to receive, the cash flows that a purchaser of a bond with credit risk expects
to receive may be less than that amount.

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YES

51
Q

A higher yield to maturity does not necessarily imply that a bond’s expected
return is higher.

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YES

52
Q

By consulting bond ratings, investors can assess the credit-worthiness of a
particular bond issue.

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YES

53
Q

Because the yield to maturity for a bond is calculated using the promised cash
flows, the yield of bond’s with credit risk will be lower than that of otherwise identical default-free bonds.

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NO

54
Q

A bond’s rating depends on the risk of bankruptcy as well as the bondholder’s
ability to lay claim to the firm’s assets in the event of a bankruptcy.

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YES

55
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Bonds in the top four categories are often referred to as investment grade bonds.

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YES

56
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Bond ratings encourage widespread investor participation and relatively liquid markets.

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YES

57
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Debt issues with a low-priority claim in bankruptcy will have a better rating than issues from the same company that have a higher priority in bankruptcy.

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NO

58
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Sovereign debt is always riskless.

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NO

59
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Sovereign debt is debt denominated in soverreigns.

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NO

60
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Sovereign debt is debt issued by national governments.

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YES

61
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A key difference between sovereign default and corporate bonds is that unlike corporate debt, sovereign debt prices are not inverse to yields.

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NO

62
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A key difference between sovereign default and corporate bonds is that unlike a corporation, a country facing difficulty meeting its financial obligations typically has the option to print more currency.

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YES

63
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A key difference between sovereign default and corporate bonds is that unlike a corporation, any country can turn to the EMU to pay off its debts.

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NO

64
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A key difference between sovereign default and corporate bonds is that unlike a corporation, a country facing difficulty meeting its financial obligations
is can not default.

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NO

65
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Forward interest rates tend to be biased downward as predictors of future spot rates when the yield
curve is upward sloping.

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NO

66
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Forward interest rates tend to be biased upward as predictors of future spot rates when the yield curve
is downward sloping.

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NO

67
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Forward interest rates tend not to be good predictors of future spot rates.

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YES

68
Q

Forward interest rates accurately predict future spots rates because of the law of one price.

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NO

69
Q

If investors did not care about risk, then they would be indifferent between
investing in a two-year bond and investing in a one-year bond and rolling over
the money in one-year.

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YES

70
Q

In general, the expected future spot interest rate will reflect investor’s preferences
toward the risk of future interest rate fluctuations.

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YES

71
Q

When we refer to the one-year forward rate for year 5, we mean the rate
available today on a one-year investment that begins four years from today and
is repaid five years from today.

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YES

72
Q

In general, we can compute the forward rate for year n by comparing an
investment in an n-year, zero-coupon bond to an investment in an (n + 1) year, zero-coupon bond, with the interest rate earned in the nth year being guaranteed through an interest rate forward contract.

A

NO

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