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1) If interest rates increase, the value of a fixed income contract decreases and vice versa.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Impact of Interest Rate Changes on Security Values
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-04 Appreciate how security prices are affected by interest rate changes.
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2) At equilibrium a security's required rate of return will be less than its expected rate of return.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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3) If a security's realized return is negative, it must have been true that the expected return was
greater than the required return.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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4) Suppose two bonds of equivalent risk and maturity have different prices such that one is a
premium bond and one is a discount bond. The premium bond must have a greater expected
return than the discount bond.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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5) A bond with an 11 percent coupon and a 9 percent required return will sell at a premium to
par.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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6) A fairly priced bond with a coupon less than the expected return must sell at a discount from
par.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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7) All else equal, the holder of a fairly priced premium bond must expect a capital loss over the
holding period.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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8) The duration of a four-year maturity 10 percent coupon bond is less than four years.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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9) The longer the time to maturity, the lower the security's price sensitivity to an interest rate
change, ceteris paribus.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Impact of Maturity on Security Values
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-05 Understand how the maturity and coupon rate on a security affect its
price sensitivity to interest rate changes.
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10) The greater a security's coupon, the lower the security's price sensitivity to an interest rate
change, ceteris paribus.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Impact of Coupon Rates on Security Values
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-05 Understand how the maturity and coupon rate on a security affect its
price sensitivity to interest rate changes.
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11) For a given interest rate change, a 20-year bond's price change will be twice that of a 10-year
bond's price change.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Impact of Maturity on Security Values
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-05 Understand how the maturity and coupon rate on a security affect its
price sensitivity to interest rate changes.
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12) Any security that returns a greater percentage of the price sooner is less price-volatile.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Impact of Coupon Rates on Security Values
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-05 Understand how the maturity and coupon rate on a security affect its
price sensitivity to interest rate changes.
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13) A zero coupon bond has a duration equal to its maturity and a convexity equal to zero.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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14) The lower the level of interest rates, the greater a bond's price sensitivity to interest rate
changes.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and coupon rate affect the
duration of a security.
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15) The higher a bond's coupon, the lower the bond's price volatility.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and coupon rate affect the
duration of a security.
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16) Higher interest rates lead to lower bond convexity, ceteris paribus.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Appendix 3B: More on Convexity
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of duration.
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17) A 10-year maturity zero coupon bond will have lower price volatility than a 10-year bond
with a 10 percent coupon.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Impact of Coupon Rates on Security Values
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-05 Understand how the maturity and coupon rate on a security affect its
price sensitivity to interest rate changes.
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18) Ignoring default risk, if a bond's expected return is greater than its required return, then the
bond's market price must be greater than the present value of the bond's cash flows.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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19) The coupon rate represents the most accurate measure of the bondholder's required return.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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20) The higher the interest rate is the higher the duration, all else being equal.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and coupon rate affect the
duration of a security.
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Answer: E
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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22) Duration is
A) the elasticity of a security's value to small coupon changes.
B) the weighted average time to maturity of the bond's cash flows.
C) the time until the investor recovers the price of the bond in today's dollars.
D) greater than maturity for deep discount bonds and less than maturity for premium bonds.
E) the second derivative of the bond price formula with respect to the YTM.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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23) Which of the following bond terms are generally positively related to bond price volatility?
I. Coupon rate
II. Maturity
III. YTM
IV. Payment frequency
A) II and IV only
B) I and III only
C) II and III only
D) II only
E) II, III, and IV only
Answer: D
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Impact of Maturity on Security Values; Impact of Coupon Rates on Security Values;
Impact of Interest Rate Changes on Security Values
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-05 Understand how the maturity and coupon rate on a security affect its
price sensitivity to interest rate changes.
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24) The interest rate used to find the present value of a financial security is the
A) expected rate of return.
B) required rate of return.
C) realized rate of return.
D) realized yield to maturity.
E) current yield.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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25) A security has an expected return less than its required return. This security is
A) selling at a premium to par.
B) selling at a discount to par.
C) selling for more than its PV.
D) selling for less than its PV.
E) a zero coupon bond.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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26) A bond that you held to maturity had a realized return of 8 percent, but when you bought it, it
had an expected return of 6 percent. If no default occurred, which one of the following must be
true?
A) The bond was purchased at a premium to par.
B) The coupon rate was 8 percent.
C) The required return was greater than 6 percent.
D) The coupons were reinvested at a higher rate than expected.
E) The bond must have been a zero coupon bond.
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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Answer: C
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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28) A 10-year annual payment corporate bond has a market price of $1,050. It pays annual
interest of $100 and its required rate of return is 9 percent. By how much is the bond mispriced?
A) $0.00
B) Overpriced by $14.18
C) Underpriced by $14.18
D) Overpriced by $9.32
E) Underpriced by $9.32
Answer: C
Explanation: PV = 100 × PVIFA [9%, 10 yrs.] + 1,000 × PVIF (9%, 10 yrs.) = $1,064.18
Calculator Method:
N = 10
PMT = 100
I/Y = 9
FV = 1,000
Solve for PV which is $1064.18; Market value is underpriced by $14.18.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures; Bond Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.; 03-02 Calculate bond values.
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29) A 12-year annual payment corporate bond has a market price of $925. It pays annual interest
of $60 and its required rate of return is 7 percent. By how much is the bond mispriced?
A) $0.00
B) Overpriced by $7.29
C) Underpriced by $7.29
D) Overpriced by $4.43
E) Underpriced by $4.43
Answer: D
Explanation: FPV = 60 × PVIFA [7%, 12 yrs.] + 1,000 × PVIF (7%, 12 yrs.) = $920.57
Calculator Method:
N = 12
PMT = 60
I/Y = 7
FV = 1,000
Solve for PV which is $920.57; Market value is overpriced by $4.43.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures; Bond Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.; 03-02 Calculate bond values.
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30) An eight-year corporate bond has a 7 percent coupon rate. What should be the bond's price if
the required return is 6 percent and the bond pays interest semiannually?
A) $1,062.81
B) $1,062.10
C) $1,053.45
D) $1,052.99
E) $1,049.49
Answer: A
Explanation: Price = 35.00 × PVIFA (3%, 16) + 1,000 × PVIF (3%, 16)
Calculator Method:
N = 16
PMT = 35
I/Y = 3
FV = 1,000
Solve for PV which is $1062.81.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Bond Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-02 Calculate bond values.
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31) A 15-year corporate bond pays $40 interest every six months. What is the bond's price if the
bond's promised YTM is 5.5 percent?
A) $1,261.32
B) $1,253.12
C) $1,250.94
D) $1,263.45
E) $1,264.79
Answer: B
Explanation: Using P/Y2 for semiannual; FV $1,000; PMT $40; N 15 years; and I/Y 5.5
percent. Solve bond price (PV) = $1,253.12.
Calculator Method:
N = 30
PMT = 40
I/Y = 2.75
FV = 1,000
Solve for PV which is $1,253.12.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Bond Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-02 Calculate bond values.
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32) A corporate bond has a coupon rate of 10 percent and a required return of 10 percent. This
bond's price is
A) $924.18.
B) $1,000.00.
C) $879.68.
D) $1,124.83.
E) not possible to determine from the information given.
Answer: B
Explanation: When coupon rate = required return; price = par
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Bond Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-02 Calculate bond values.
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33) A 10-year annual payment corporate coupon bond has an expected return of 11 percent and a
required return of 10 percent. The bond's market price is
A) greater than its PV.
B) less than par.
C) less than its E(r).
D) less than its PV.
E) $1,000.00.
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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34) An eight-year annual payment 7 percent coupon Treasury bond has a price of $1,075. The
bond's annual E(r) must be
A) 13.49 percent.
B) 5.80 percent.
C) 7.00 percent.
D) 1.69 percent.
E) 4.25 percent.
Answer: B
Explanation: $1,075 = 70 × PVIFA (E(r)%, 8) + 1,000 × PVIF (E(r)%, 8), trial and error or
calculator
Calculator Method:
N=8
PMT = 70
PV = −1,075
FV = 1,000
Solve for I/Y which is 5.80%.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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35) A six-year annual payment corporate bond has a required return of 9.5 percent and an 8
percent coupon. Its market value is $20 over its PV. What is the bond's E(r)?
A) 8.00 percent
B) 10.21 percent
C) 9.98 percent
D) 9.03 percent
E) 3.53 percent
Answer: D
Explanation: PV = 933.70 = 80 × PVIFA (9.5%, 6 yrs.) + 1,000 × PVIF (9.5%, 6 yrs.); (933.70
+ 20) = 80 × PVIFA (E(r), 6 yrs.) + 1,000 × PVIF (E(r), 6 yrs.), trial and error or calculator
Calculator Method:
First find the Present Value of this bond.
N=6
PMT = 80
I/Y = 9.5
FV = 1,000
Solve for PV which is 933.70.
The market value is 953.70, using this value solve for I/Y to find E(r).
PV = −953.70
PMT = 80
N=6
FV = 1,000
Solve for I/Y to get 9.03%.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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36) Corporate Bond A returns 5 percent of its cost in PV terms in each of the first five years and
75 percent of its value in the sixth year. Corporate Bond B returns 8 percent of its cost in PV
terms in each of the first five years and 60 percent of its cost in the sixth year. If A and B have
the same required return, which of the following is/are true?
A) III only
B) I, III, and IV only
C) I, II, and IV only
D) II and IV only
E) I, II, III, and IV
Answer: D
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures; Duration; Impact of Coupon Rates on Security Values
Bloom's: Analyze; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-05 Understand how the maturity and coupon rate on a security affect its
price sensitivity to interest rate changes.; 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and
coupon rate affect the duration of a security.; 03-01 Understand the differences in the required
rate of return, the expected rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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37) A corporate bond returns 12 percent of its cost (in PV terms) in the first year, 11 percent in
the second year, 10 percent in the third year and the remainder in the fourth year. What is the
bond's duration in years?
A) 3.68 years
B) 2.50 years
C) 4.00 years
D) 3.75 years
E) 3.32 years
Answer: E
Explanation: 3.32 = (12% × 1) + (11% × 2) + (10% × 3) + (67% × 4)
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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38) A semiannual payment bond with a $1,000 par has a 7 percent quoted coupon rate, a 7
percent promised YTM, and 10 years to maturity. What is the bond's duration?
A) 10.00 years
B) 8.39 years
C) 6.45 years
D) 5.20 years
E) 7.35 years
Answer: E
Explanation: Σ[(t × CFt/(1.035)t)]/($1,000)
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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39) An annual payment bond with a $1,000 par has a 5 percent quoted coupon rate, a 6 percent
promised YTM, and six years to maturity. What is the bond's duration?
A) 5.31 years
B) 5.25 years
C) 4.76 years
D) 4.16 years
E) 3.19 years
Answer: A
Explanation: Σ[(t × CFt/(1.06)t)]/$950.83
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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40) If an N year security recovered the same percentage of its cost in PV terms each year, the
duration would be
A) N.
B) 0.
C) sum of the years/N.
D) N!/N2.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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41) The ________ the coupon and the ________ the maturity; the ________ the duration of a
bond, ceteris paribus.
A) larger; longer; longer
B) larger; longer; shorter
C) smaller; shorter; longer
D) smaller; shorter; shorter
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: E
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and coupon rate affect the
duration of a security.
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42) A four-year maturity 0 percent coupon corporate bond with a required rate of return of 12
percent has an annual duration of ________ years.
A) 3.05
B) 2.97
C) 3.22
D) 3.71
E) 4.00
Answer: E
Explanation: Duration of zero coupon bond definition.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and coupon rate affect the
duration of a security.
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44) A 10-year maturity coupon bond has a six-year duration. An equivalent 20-year bond with
the same coupon has a duration
A) equal to 12 years.
B) less than six years.
C) less than 12 years.
D) equal to six years.
E) greater than 20 years.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and coupon rate affect the
duration of a security.
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45) A six-year maturity bond has a five-year duration. Over the next year maturity will decline
by one year and duration will decline by
A) less than one year.
B) more than one year.
C) one year.
D) N years.
E) N/(N − 1) years.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and coupon rate affect the
duration of a security.
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46) An annual payment bond has a 9 percent required return. Interest rates are projected to fall
25 basis points. The bond's duration is 12 years. What is the predicted price change?
A) −2.75 percent
B) 33.33 percent
C) 1.95 percent
D) −1.95 percent
E) 2.75 percent
Answer: E
Explanation: −12 × (−0.0025/1.09) = 0.0275
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of duration.
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47) A bond that pays interest annually has a 6 percent promised yield and a price of $1,025.
Annual interest rates are now projected to fall 50 basis points. The bond's duration is six years.
What is the predicted new bond price after the interest rate change? (Watch your rounding.)
A) $1,042.33
B) $995.99
C) $1,054.01
D) $987.44
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Explanation: 1,025 + [−6 × (−0.0050/1.06) × $1,025] = 1,054
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of duration.
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48) A bond that pays interest semiannually has a 6 percent promised yield and a price of $1,045.
Annual interest rates are now projected to increase 50 basis points. The bond's duration is five
years. What is the predicted new bond price after the interest rate change? (Watch your
rounding.)
A) $1,020.35
B) $1,069.65
C) $1,070.36
D) $1,019.64
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: D
Explanation: ((−5/1.03) × 0.0050 × $1,045) + $1,045 = 1,019.635
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of duration.
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Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Appendix 3B: More on Convexity
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of duration.
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50) The duration of a 180-day T-Bill is (in years)
A) 0.493.
B) 0.246.
C) 1.
D) 0.
E) indeterminate.
Answer: A
Explanation: 180/365 = 0.493
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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Answer: B
Explanation: 91/365 = 0.249
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.
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52) For large interest rate increases, duration ________ the fall in security prices, and for large
interest rate decreases, duration ________ the rise in security prices.
A) overpredicts; overpredicts
B) overpredicts; underpredicts
C) underpredicts; overpredicts
D) underpredicts; underpredicts
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of duration.
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53) Suppose you owned stock in a company for the last three years. You originally bought the
stock three years ago for $30 and just sold it for $56. The stock paid an annual dividend of $1.35
on the last day of each of the past three years. What is your realized return on this investment?
A) 15.36 percent
B) 36.14 percent
C) 26.85 percent
D) 37.58 percent
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Explanation: Use a financial calculator to solve for IRR as follows:
CF0 = −$30, CF1 = $1.35, CF2 = $1.35, CF3 = $57.35
Compute IRR = 26.85%.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Equity Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-03 Calculate equity values.
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54) You are considering the purchase of a certain stock. You expect to own the stock for the next
four years. The current market price of the stock is $24.50 and you expect to sell it for $55 in
four years. You also expect the stock to pay an annual dividend of $1.25 at the end of year 1,
$1.35 at the end of year 2, $1.45 at the end of year 3 and $1.55 at the end of year 4. What is your
expected return from this investment?
A) 21.78 percent
B) 18.36 percent
C) 26.68 percent
D) 32.85 percent
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Explanation: Use a financial calculator to solve for IRR as follows:
CF0 = −$24.50, CF1 = $1.25, CF2 = $1.35, CF3 = $1.45, CF4 = $56.55
Compute IRR = 26.68%.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Equity Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-03 Calculate equity values.
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55) A preferred stock is expected to pay a constant quarterly dividend of $1.25 per quarter into
the future. The required rate of return, Rs, on the preferred stock is 13.5 percent. What is the fair
value (or price) of this stock?
A) $37.04
B) $24.36
C) $52.36
D) $18.65
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: A
Explanation: Rs = (4 × 1.25) / 0.135 = 37.04
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Equity Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-03 Calculate equity values.
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56) You are evaluating a company's stock. The stock just paid a dividend of $1.75. Dividends are
expected to grow at a constant rate of 5 for long time into the future. The required rate of return
(Rs) on the stock is 12 percent. What is the fair present value?
A) $26.25
B) $22.50
C) $35.26
D) $50.25
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: A
Explanation: P0 = (1.75 × 1.05)/(0.12 − 0.05) = 26.25
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Equity Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-03 Calculate equity values.
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57) A common stock paid a dividend at the end of last year of $3.50. Dividends have grown at a
constant rate of 6 percent per year over the last 20 years, and this constant growth rate is
expected to continue into the future. The stock is currently selling at a price of $35 per share.
What is the expected rate of return on this stock?
A) 18.7 percent
B) 22.5 percent
C) 16.6 percent
D) 8.4 percent
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Explanation: E(Rs) = (3.5 × 1.06/35) + 0.06 = 0.166
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Equity Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-03 Calculate equity values.
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58) A stock you are evaluating is expected to experience supernormal growth in dividends of 12
percent over the next three years. Following this period, dividends are expected to grow at a
constant rate of 4 percent. The stock paid a dividend of $1.50 last year and the required rate of
return on the stock is 11 percent. Calculate the stock's fair present value.
A) $16.24
B) $21.56
C) $24.25
D) $27.46
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: D
Explanation: D1 = 1.5 × 1.12 = 1.68
D2 = 1.68 × 1.12 = 1.88
D3 = 1.88 × 1.12 = 2.11
D4 = 2.11 × 1.04 = 2.19
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59) The basic principle of valuation states that the value of any asset is
A) the present value of all future cash flows generated by the asset.
B) the sum of all future cash flows generated by the asset.
C) the present value of next year's cash flow only.
D) the degree of cash flow riskiness is not a relevant factor in valuation.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Bond Valuation; Equity Valuation
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-02 Calculate bond values.; 03-03 Calculate equity values.
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60) Is the realized rate of return related to the expected return? the required return? Explain.
Answer: Yes and no. The required return determines the initial size of the coupon and the offer
price and, as the r changes, forces the market price to change. As the buy and sell prices and
reinvestment rates on coupons change, the realized return will be affected. However, the required
return is an ex-ante rate designed to compensate investors for risk. The realized return may be
less than or more than the expected or the required. That is the nature of risk. If you repeated the
same investment with the same terms over and over, you should, on average, earn a realized
return equal to the required return.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Understand; Analyze
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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61) You bought a stock three years ago and paid $45 per share. You collected a $2 dividend per
share each year you held the stock and then you sold the stock for $47 per share. What was your
annual compound rate of return?
A) 8.89 percent
B) 8.51 percent
C) 5.84 percent
D) 4.44 percent
E) 2.96 percent
Answer: C
Explanation: Use a financial calculator to solve for IRR as follows:
CF0 = −$45, CF1 = $2, CF2 = $2, CF3 = $49,
Compute for IRR = 5.84%.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Equity Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-03 Calculate equity values.
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62) Conceptually, why does a bond's price fall when required returns rise on an existing fixed
income security?
Answer: Since the cash flows are set by contract, the only way a new investor can expect to
earn the new higher required return is to pay less for the bond, so the price has to fall. Traders
sell the existing bond in favor of newer, higher rate bonds, dropping the price and raising the
expected return.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Impact of Interest Rate Changes on Security Valuation
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-04 Appreciate how security prices are affected by interest rate changes.
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63) A 15-year, 7 percent coupon annual payment corporate bond has a PV of $1,055.62.
However, you pay $1,024.32 for the bond. By how many basis points is your E(r) different from
your r?
Answer: r = 6.41%
E(r) = 6.74%
PV = −1,024.32
FV = 1,000
PMT = 70
N = 15
Solve for I/Y = 6.74%.
The difference between expected return and required return is 0.33% or 33 basis points.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Various Interest Rate Measures
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-01 Understand the differences in the required rate of return, the expected
rate of return, and the realized rate of return.
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64) What is convexity? How does convexity affect duration-based predicted price changes for
interest rates changes?
Calculus
Answer: Duration is the first derivative of the bond price formula with respect to a change in
interest rates. As such, it is accurate only for extremely small changes in interest rates. Duration
gives only an approximation of the actual value change for interest rate movements that are
normally observed in the market.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Appendix 3B: More on Convexity
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of duration.
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65) An investor owned a 9 percent annual payment coupon bond for six years that was originally
purchased at a 9 percent required return. She did not reinvest any coupons (she kept the money
under her mattress). She redeemed the bond at par. What was her annual realized rate of return?
What if she did reinvest the coupons but only earned 5 percent on each coupon? Why are your
answers not equal to 9 percent?
Answer: You can't use the bond price formula in this case because of the lack of reinvestment.
Answer: The longer the maturity, the greater the price sensitivity of an asset with respect to
interest rate changes. The larger the coupon payments, or any interim cash flows, the lower the
price sensitivity of an asset with respect to asset changes. In general, any security that returns a
greater proportion of an investment more quickly will be less price-volatile because this allows
the investor to respond to the interest rate change, minimizing the opportunity cost.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Impact of Interest Rate Changes on Security Valuation
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-05 Understand how the maturity and coupon rate on a security affect its
price sensitivity to interest rate changes.
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67) Which would have a longer duration: (a) a five-year fully amortized installment loan with
semiannual payments or (b) a five-year semiannual payment bond, ceteris paribus. Why?
Answer: The bond will have a longer duration because you receive interest payments only until
maturity, whereas the amortizing loan pays principal and interest throughout the life of the loan.
Hence, the loan pays more (%) money back sooner. That makes the loan less volatile than the
bond.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and coupon rate affect the
duration of a security.
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Answer: At higher interest rates the PV of more distant cash flows is reduced by a greater
amount than near-term cash flows due to compounding. For example, the PV of the 10th cash
flow falls more than the PV of the first cash flow if rates rise. This shifts a greater portion of the
PV weights to the near-term cash flows, which, in turn, results in a shorter duration. The
converse is true for falling interest rates.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-07 Understand how maturity, yield to maturity, and coupon rate affect the
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69) An investor is considering purchasing a Treasury bond with a 16-year maturity, a 6 percent
coupon and a 7 percent required rate of return. The bond pays interest semiannually.
Answer:
a. The bond's price is $908.04 and the bond's modified duration is found as
Σ[(t × CFt/(1.035))t]/($904.66 × 2) = 10.19 years duration;
Modified duration = 10.19/1.035 = 9.85 years
b. With a decrease of 30 basis points in annual promised yields:
Predicted Δ Bond Price = −9.85 × −.0030 = 2.95% or a $ price change of 0.0295 × $904.66 =
$26.72
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-06 Know what duration is.; 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of
duration.
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70) You have five years until you need to take your money out of your investments to make a
planned expenditure. Right now bonds are promising an 8 percent return. You buy a five-year
duration bond. After you buy the bond, interest rates fall to 6 percent and stay there for the full
five years. You reinvest the coupons and earn 6 percent. Will your realized return be more or less
than the originally promised 8 percent? Explain.
Answer: You will earn the promised 8 percent return. Because you chose a bond with a
duration equal to the five-year time period, the loss in reinvestment income from reinvesting the
coupons at 6 percent instead of 8 percent will just be offset by having a higher-than-expected
sale price of the bond in five years.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Duration
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of duration.
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71) A nine-year maturity AAA-rated corporate bond has a 6 percent coupon rate. The bond's
promised yield is currently 5.75 percent and the bond sells for its FPV. The bond pays interest
semiannually and has an annual duration of 7.1023 years.
Answer:
a. Bond's convexity:
b. With a new promised YTM = 5.45 percent, the YTM change is 30 basis points and the bond's
new predicted price is found as
ΔP/P = -DurMod × ΔYTM + 1/2 × CX × ΔYTM2 = (−6.90385 × −0.0030) + (½ × 58.49006 ×
0.0032) = 2.09748%.
The bond's new price should be $1,017.37 + (2.09748% × $1,017.37) = $1,038.714.
c. An investor would prefer more convexity, with greater convexity or curvature; as yields drop,
the bond's price will increase more.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Appendix 3B: More on Convexity
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-08 Understand the economic meaning of duration.
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72) The preferred stock of ACE pays a constant $1.00 per share dividend. The common stock of
ACME just paid a $1.00 dividend per share, but its dividend is expected to grow at 4 percent per
year forever. ABLE common stock also just paid a dividend of $1.00 per share, but its dividend
is expected to grow at 10 percent per year for five years and then grow at 4 percent per year
forever. All three stocks have a 12 percent required return. How much should you be willing to
pay for a share of each stock? Which stock will give you the best return? Explain.
Answer:
ACE: P = 1/0.12 = $8.33
ACME: P = 1(1.04)/(0.12 − 0.04) = $13.00
ABLE: D0 = $1; D1 through D5 grow at 10% per year, D6 = D5 × (1 + g2); P5 = D6/(r − g2); g2 =
4%
g1 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 g2 r
ABLE 10% 1.1 1.21 1.331 1.4641 1.61051 1.6749304 4.00% 12%
D0 P5 = 20.93663
1 1.1 1.21 1.331 1.4641 22.54714
P0 = $16.62
If the stocks are priced at their fair values as calculated above, all three will give the investor the
same pretax rate of return of 12 percent. A good stock buy is one where the price is less than the
present value of the expected future cash flows, regardless of the expected growth rate in the
cash flows.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Equity Valuation
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 03-03 Calculate equity values.
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Financial Markets and Institutions, 7e (Saunders)
Chapter 4 The Federal Reserve System, Monetary Policy, and Interest Rates
1) Federal Reserve interest rate decisions can be vetoed by the U.S. president or the Congress.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Major Duties and Responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System: Chapter Overview
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-01 Understand the major functions of the Federal Reserve System.
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2) Four seats on the FOMC are allocated to Federal Reserve Bank presidents on an annual
rotating basis.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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3) The monetary base is the amount of coin and currency in circulation plus reserves.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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4) Nationally chartered banks are required to become members of the Federal Reserve System.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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5) About 34 percent of all U.S. banks are members of the Federal Reserve System.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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6) The major asset of the Federal Reserve is currency outside banks and the major liability is
U.S. Treasury securities.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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7) The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System serve 14-year
nonrenewable terms. Each Board member is appointed by the president and confirmed by the
Senate.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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8) Federal Reserve Board members are appointed by the U.S. president and confirmed by the
Senate for a nonrenewable 14-year term.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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9) If the FOMC wished to generate faster economic growth, they could issue a policy directive to
the Federal Reserve Board Trading Desk to purchase U.S. government securities.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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10) An increase in Treasury securities held by the Fed leads to a decrease in the money supply.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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11) One of the objectives of the FOMC is to formulate policies to promote 100 percent
employment.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Federal Open Market Committee
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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12) During the 2010–2014 period, the Federal Reserve purchased long-term treasury securities as
part of the Quantitative Easing program.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Open Market Operations
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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13) Quantitative Easing program initiated by the Federal Reserve during the 2010–2014 period,
involved the purchase of long-term corporate bonds.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Open Market Operations
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-04 Appreciate how monetary policy changes affect key economic variables.
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14) According to the current FOMC stances, inflation targeting promotes maximum
employment.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Effects of monetary tools on various economic variables
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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15) Countries with independent central banks are subject to political pressure to conduct
monetary policies with short-term expectations.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: International Monetary Policies and Strategies
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-05 Understand how central banks around the world adjusted their monetary
policy during the recent financial crisis.
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16) The primary policy tool used by the Fed to meet its monetary policy goals is
A) changing the discount rate.
B) changing reserve requirements.
C) devaluing the currency.
D) changing bank regulations.
E) open market operations.
Answer: E
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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Answer: E
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Major Duties and Responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System: Chapter Overview
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-01 Understand the major functions of the Federal Reserve System.
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18) The ________ is a nationwide network jointly operated by the Fed and private institutions
that electronically process credit and debit transfers of funds.
A) Fedwire
B) ACH
C) CHIPS
D) NASDAQ
E) SWIFT
Answer: B
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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19) The ________ is a network linking over 9,000 banks with the Federal Reserve that is used to
transfer deposits and make loan payments between participants.
A) Fedwire
B) ACH
C) CHIPS
D) NASDAQ
E) SWIFT
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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20) Ceteris paribus, if the Fed was targeting the quantity of money supplied and money demand
dropped, the Fed would likely ________. If the Fed was instead targeting interest rates and
money demand dropped, the Fed would likely ________.
A) increase the money supply; do nothing
B) do nothing; decrease the money supply
C) decrease the money supply; do nothing
D) do nothing; increase the money supply
E) increase the money supply; decrease the money supply
Answer: B
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: The Federal Reserve, the Money Supply, and Interest Rates
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-04 Appreciate how monetary policy changes affect key economic variables.
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21) Which of the following is the major monetary policy-making body of the U.S. Federal
Reserve System?
A) FOMC
B) OCC
C) FRB bank presidents
D) U.S. Congress
E) Group of Eight
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
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24) The Fed funds rate is the rate that
A) banks charge for loans to corporate customers.
B) banks charge to lend foreign exchange to customers.
C) the Federal Reserve charges on emergency loans to commercial banks.
D) banks charge each other on loans of excess reserves.
E) banks charge securities dealers to finance their inventory.
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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Answer: E
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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26) The Fed offers three types of discount window loans. ________ credit is offered to small
institutions with demonstrable patterns of financing needs, ________ credit is offered for short-
term temporary funds outflows, and ________ credit may be offered at a higher rate to troubled
institutions with more severe liquidity problems.
A) Seasonal; extended; adjustment
B) Extended; adjustment; seasonal
C) Adjustment; extended; seasonal
D) Seasonal; primary; secondary
E) Adjustment; seasonal; extended
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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27) Before 2003 the discount window loan rate was set
A) below the target Fed funds rate.
B) above the target Fed funds rate.
C) equal to the target Fed funds rate.
D) equal to the repurchase rate.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
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29) Bank A has an increase in deposits of $20 million dollars and all bank reserve requirements
are 10 percent. Bank A loans out the full amount of the deposit increase that is allowed. This
amount winds up deposited in Bank B. Bank B lends out the full amount possible as well and
this amount winds up deposited in Bank C. What is the total increase in deposits resulting from
these three banks?
A) $48.00 million
B) $54.20 million
C) $56.33 million
D) $57.10 million
E) $60.00 million
Answer: B
Explanation: 20 + (20 × 0.90) + (18 × 0.90)
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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30) The Fed changes reserve requirements from 10 percent to 7 percent, thereby creating $900
million in excess reserves. The total change in deposits (with no drains) would be
A) $3,000 million.
B) $15,625 million.
C) $12,857 million.
D) $3,795 million.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Explanation: (1/0.07) × $900 million
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
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31) If the Fed wishes to stimulate the economy, it could
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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Answer: A
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Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
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33) From October 1983 to July 1993, the Federal Reserve targeted
A) the Fed funds rate.
B) borrowed reserves.
C) nonborrowed reserves.
D) M1.
E) M3.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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34) Assume oil prices rise in the United States, generating concerns that inflation may increase.
If the Fed wishes to ensure that inflation does not get out of hand, the Fed could
A) intervene in the currency markets to push the value of the dollar down.
B) decrease the discount rate.
C) lower the target Fed funds rate.
D) lower the target money supply growth rate.
E) reduce reserve requirements at banks.
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: The Federal Reserve, the Money Supply, and Interest Rates
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-04 Appreciate how monetary policy changes affect key economic variables.
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35) The Fed changes reserve requirements from 10 percent to 14 percent, thereby eliminating
$750 million in excess reserves. The total change in deposits (with no drains) would be
(rounded)
A) $7.917 billion.
B) $6.630 billion.
C) $5.357 billion.
D) $4.934 billion.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Explanation: (1/0.14) × $750 million
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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36) The Fed increases bank reserves in the system by $75 million. If there are no drains, the
expected change in bank deposits is
A) $82.5 million.
B) $945 million.
C) $750 million.
D) $1,500 million.
E) $655 million.
Answer: C
Explanation: (1/0.10) × $75 million
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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37) If the Fed is targeting interest rates and money demand increases, an appropriate policy
response would be to
A) increase reserve requirements.
B) increase the discount rate.
C) buy U.S. Treasury securities from government bond dealers.
D) increase government spending.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: The Federal Reserve, the Money Supply, and Interest Rates
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-04 Appreciate how monetary policy changes affect key economic variables.
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38) The major monetary policy-making arm of the Federal Reserve is the
A) Board of Governors.
B) Council of Federal Reserve Bank presidents.
C) Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
D) Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: E
Explanation: The Federal Open Market Committee is the correct answer.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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39) In the area of bank supervision, which of the following are functions of the Federal Reserve
Banks?
A) I only
B) I and II only
C) II and III only
D) I and III only
E) I, II, and III
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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40) The Check 21 Act, effective in October 2004, does which of the following?
A) Allows bank customers to better take advantage of bank float
B) Requires banks to immediately clear all customer deposits
C) Prohibits the Fed from being involved in check clearing to prevent unfair competition with
private check clearing agencies
D) Authorizes the use of an electronic image to facilitate paperless check clearing
E) Eliminates all fees on checking
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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41) A bank has $770 million in checkable deposits. The bank has $85 million in reserves. The
bank's required reserves are ________ and its excess reserves are ________.
A) $85 million; $0
B) $770 million; $85 million
C) $89 million; $21 million
D) $685 million; $8.5 million
E) $77 million; $8 million
Answer: E
Explanation: Required = 10% (770); Excess = 85 − 10% (770)
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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42) The Federal Reserve does all but which one of the following?
A) Conducts monetary policy
B) Supervises and regulates bank activities
C) Serves as the commercial bank for the U.S. Treasury
D) Operates check clearing and wire transfer facilities
E) Insures deposits
Answer: E
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Major Duties and Responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System: Chapter Overview
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-01 Understand the major functions of the Federal Reserve System.
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Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Major Duties and Responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System: Chapter Overview
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-01 Understand the major functions of the Federal Reserve System.
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44) Which of the following is not a program initiated by world's major central banks during the
financial crisis of 2007 to avoid a deep worldwide recession?
A) Expansion of retail deposit insurance
B) Capital injections
C) Purchase of U.S. dollars
D) Debt guarantees
E) Asset purchases/guarantees
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: International Monetary Policies and Strategies
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-05 Understand how central banks around the world adjusted their monetary
policy during the recent financial crisis.
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45) What are the intended consequences from charging an interest on excess reserves by Central
banks?
A) Banks lend less money.
B) Interest rates increase.
C) Banks deposits increase.
D) Banks lend more money.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: International Monetary Policies and Strategies
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-05 Understand how central banks around the world adjusted their monetary
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46) In the aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis, the Fed used several programs to increase
liquidity, including ________.
A) expansion of the discount window
B) setting up the Term Auction Facility
C) lending to investment banks
D) purchase of long-term treasury bonds
E) All of these choices are correct.
Answer: E
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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47) What are the four major functions of the Federal Reserve System?
Answer:
1. Conducts monetary policy.
2. Supervises and regulates depository institutions.
3. Maintains the stability of the financial system.
4. Provides payment and other services to institutions.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Major Duties and Responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System: Chapter Overview
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-01 Understand the major functions of the Federal Reserve System.
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48) The 12 Federal Reserve Banks perform what functions?
Answer:
1. Assist in monetary policy.
2. Supervise and regulate district state-chartered member banks and bank holding companies.
3. Write regulations to implement consumer protection laws and establish programs to promote
access to credit and community development.
4. Serve as commercial banks for the U.S. Treasury.
5. Distribute and replace currency.
6. Provide check clearing services.
7. Provide wire transfer services.
8. Provide economic research for monetary policy.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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49) How do Federal Reserve Banks generate income? Do they require supplemental funding
from Congress?
Answer:
Interest earned on government securities acquired in open market transactions
Interest earned on reserves that banks are required to deposit at the Fed
Fees from services and membership fees
The Fed does not need supplemental funding from Congress.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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50) Why did the Fed switch from increasing rates prior to 2007 to reducing interest rates in 2007
and 2008?
Answer: The growing problems in the housing markets led to problems in the subprime
mortgage markets. Many financial institutions held or guaranteed mortgage-backed securities,
which were becoming increasingly risky in 2007 and early 2008. It became apparent that banks
had made too many risky mortgage-backed loans with borrowed funds. Lenders to these
institutions were wary of accepting mortgage collateral, causing short-term funding problems at
banks and investment banks. The Fed began to aggressively cut interest rates to help the
mortgage market, particularly the subprime portion, and to encourage economic growth. Banks
were cutting risky lending because of the problems in their mortgage loans and mortgage-backed
securities, and the resulting "credit crunch" (banks' unwillingness to lend) led to rapidly slowing
economic growth.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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Answer: Promote full employment; promote economic growth; promote price stability; promote
sustainable pattern of international trade.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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52) Explain how a change in open market operations can affect a new college graduate.
Answer: If the Fed increases bank reserves by buying securities, interest rates on all loan types
will be affected. For instance, when interest rates fall, corporations will likely have more projects
with positive NPVs, leading to more spending and more jobs. A college graduate is then more
likely to get hired, and your interest rates on new cars, homes, and so forth, will likely be lower,
not to mention that the value of your stock holdings would probably go up.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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53) How have recent changes in discount window credit programs affected the use of this tool
for monetary policy?
Answer: In the past, the discount rate was kept below the Fed funds rate to allow troubled
banks that could not obtain private credit to borrow on an emergency basis. Changes in the
announced discount rate signaled to investors about the way the Fed wanted interest rates to
move. Under the new rules, however, the discount rate is generally tied to the current Fed funds
rate target. This largely eliminates the use of the discount rate as a signal to the market. In recent
years the FOMC has announced a target Fed funds target rate and the discount rate is adjusted as
the Fed funds target is changed.
In early 2008 the Fed opened the discount window to nonbank brokers and dealers who were
experiencing liquidity problems in their mortgage portfolios. Securities firms could exchange
some of their illiquid mortgage assets with the Fed for liquid Treasury securities.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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Answer: Suppose the Fed increases bank reserves via open market operations. The bank now
has too many excess reserves that earn no interest, so it seeks to loan out the funds. The lent
funds are deposited in another bank. The second bank keeps some funds in the form of required
reserves and lends the rest. The second loan is also redeposited at another bank and a portion of
those funds is lent again, and so forth. At the limit, a change in reserves increases deposits by the
amount equal to Δreserves x 1/reserve requirement.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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55) The Fed wishes to expand the money supply. What three things can it do? Which has the
most predictable effects? Be specific.
56) Is there a trade-off between controlling domestic inflation and maintaining a sustainable
pattern of international trade?
Answer: Yes. If the United States curtails money supply growth to the point that U.S. inflation
is lower than inflation elsewhere, the dollar will tend to appreciate against foreign currencies.
With a strong dollar, the United States will tend to import more and export less, possibly leading
to a large and potentially unsustainable trade deficit.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: The Federal Reserve, the Money Supply, and Interest Rates
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-04 Appreciate how monetary policy changes affect key economic variables.
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57) Suppose that oil prices hit an all-time high of $200 a barrel, driving U.S. inflation up to 7
percent per year. At the same time, weak U.S. growth and increasing foreign competition have
generated unacceptably high levels of unemployment in the United States. You are the chair of
the Federal Reserve. What do you suggest?
Answer: This is a very difficult scenario for the Fed chair. It is called stagflation and the
combination of high inflation and unemployment reduces the effectiveness of any monetary
policy action to provide sustained relief to the economy's problem. Increasing bank excess
reserves and lowering interest rates may reduce unemployment temporarily, but these actions
will also likely exacerbate inflation, drive up wages, and with a higher labor supply cost, will
eventually drive unemployment back up. The end result is that the employed and the
unemployed face higher prices. Alternative policy actions may include fiscal spending, removing
the factor(s) causing the problems (such as a supply constraint causing a lack of oil availability),
or perhaps stimulating greater global growth to get U.S. domestic demand growing.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: The Federal Reserve, the Money Supply, and Interest Rates
Bloom's: Understand; Analyze; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-04 Appreciate how monetary policy changes affect key economic variables.
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58) What does the 2004 Check 21 Law allow? Why was this Law passed? Does it benefit the
customer or banks? Explain.
Answer: The Check 21 Law authorizes the use of an electronic image as a substitute document
for a paper check and helps move the financial system toward paperless, electronic transfers. It
was passed because of the September 11 attacks that grounded cargo planes that fly checks all
over the country. Switching to electronic check images saves an estimated $3 billion per year for
the banking industry. If these cost savings are passed on to customers in the form of better
deposit rates or reduced checking fees, customers benefit. However, the Law facilitates speedier
clearing of checks that reduces customer's ability to "play the float." The float is the time period
between tendering a check and your account being debited, which used to be as many as several
days. Checks may now instantly clear.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Understand; Analyze; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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59) What supervisory and regulatory authority does the Fed have under current law?
Answer:
1. The authority to conduct examinations and inspections of member banks, bank holding
companies, and foreign bank offices by teams of bank examiners
2. The authority to require banks to suspend bank activities deemed excessively risky or in
violation of federal laws
3. The authority to approve or not allow mergers and acquisitions and other line of business
restrictions for both banks and bank holding companies
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Structure of the Federal Reserve System
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-02 Identify the structure of the Federal Reserve System.
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60) Why do changes in reserve requirements have less predictable effects on the money supply
in comparison to changes in open market operations?
Answer: Changing the reserve requirements changes the multiplier effect and large changes in
the money supply may result. However, it is difficult to predict the level of excess reserves held
by banks, the willingness of banks to make loans instead of investments, and the uncertainty
about how much money the public will redeposit into the banking system. Therefore, the true
new multiplier is difficult to estimate; hence, the net effect on the money supply is somewhat
unpredictable.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Monetary Policy Tools
Bloom's: Understand; Analyze; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 04-03 Identify the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve.
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Financial Markets and Institutions, 7e (Saunders)
Chapter 5 Money Markets
1) Everything else equal, an effective annual rate will be greater than the bond equivalent yield
on the same security.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Yields on Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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2) Money markets exist to help reduce the opportunity cost of holding cash balances.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Markets
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Markets
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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5) Commercial paper, Treasury bills, and banker's acceptance rates are all quoted as discount
yields.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Yields on Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.; 05-02 Identify the major types of money market
securities.
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Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Euro money markets
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-05 Examine the extent to which foreign investors participate in U.S. money
markets.
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7) The U.S. Treasury switched from a discriminating price auction to a single price auction
because the latter lowered the average price paid by investors.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-03 Examine the process used to issue Treasury securities.
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8) In the T-bill secondary market the ask yield will normally be less than the bid yield.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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9) The largest secondary money market in the United States is the secondary market for T-bills.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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10) Fed funds are short-term unsecured loans while repos are short-term secured loans.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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11) 360/n times the difference between the face value and the current value divided by the face
value gives you the discount yield on an instrument.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Yields on Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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12) The bond equivalent yield times 365/360 is equal to the single payment yield.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Yields on Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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13) LIBOR is the rate that would be charged when banks borrow from other banks in Eurodollar
market.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Euro money markets
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-05 Examine the extent to which foreign investors participate in U.S. money
markets.
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14) Maturities on Eurodollar CDs are usually more than one year.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Euro money markets
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-05 Examine the extent to which foreign investors participate in U.S. money
markets.
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15) In general, the federal funds rate is slightly lower than the LIBOR.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Euro money markets
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-05 Examine the extent to which foreign investors participate in U.S. money
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16) For the purposes for which they are used, money market securities should have which of the
following characteristics?
A) I and III
B) II and IV
C) III and IV
D) I and II
E) I, II, and III
Answer: D
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Markets
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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I. Large denomination
II. Maturity greater than one year
III. Low default risk
IV. Contractually determined cash flows
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Markets
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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18) A repo is in essence a collateralized
A) banker's acceptance.
B) certificate of deposit.
C) Fed funds loan.
D) commercial paper loan.
E) Eurodollar deposit.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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20) A time draft payable to a seller of goods with payment guaranteed by a bank is a
A) commercial paper security.
B) T-bill.
C) repurchase agreement.
D) negotiable CD.
E) banker's acceptance.
Answer: E
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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21) In the T-bill auction process, the competitive bidder is guaranteed a ________ and a
noncompetitive bidder is guaranteed a ________.
A) minimum price; maximum price.
B) maximum price; minimum price.
C) maximum price; given quantity.
D) minimum price; maximum quantity.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-03 Examine the process used to issue Treasury securities.
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22) A dealer is quoting a $10,000 face 180-day T-bill quoted at 2.75 bid, 2.65 ask. You could
buy this bill at ________ or sell it at ________.
A) $9,869.23; $9,864.36.
B) $9,864.36; $9,869.23.
C) $9,867.50; $9,862.50.
D) $9,862.50; $9,867.50.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: C
Explanation: Buy at 10,000 × [1 − (0.0265 × 180/360)]; sell at 10,000 × [1 − (0.0275 ×
180/360)].
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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23) Rates on federal funds and repurchase agreements are stated
A) on a bond equivalent basis with a 360-day year.
B) on a bond equivalent basis with a 365-day year.
C) as a discount yield with a 360-day year.
D) as an EAR.
E) as a discount yield with a 365-day year.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Yields on Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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24) The discount yield on a T-bill differs from the T-bill's bond equivalent yield (BEY) because
I. the discount yield is the return per dollar of face value and the BEY is a return per dollar
originally invested.
II. a 360-day year is used on the discount yield and the BEY uses 365 days.
III. the discount yield is calculated without compounding, and the BEY is calculated with
compounding.
A) I only
B) II only
C) I and II only
D) II and III only
E) I, II, and III
Answer: C
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Yields on Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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25) The following formula is used to calculate the ________ of a money market investment.
A) EAR
B) APR
C) single-payment yield
D) discount yield
E) BEY
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Yields on Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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Answer: E
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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27) Which one of the following statements about commercial paper is not true? Commercial
paper issued in the United States
A) is an unsecured short-term promissory note.
B) has a maximum maturity of 270 days.
C) is virtually always rated by at least one ratings agency.
D) has no secondary market.
E) carries an interest rate above the prime rate.
Answer: E
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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28) A negotiable CD
A) is a bank-issued transactions deposit.
B) is a registered instrument.
C) is a bank-issued time deposit.
D) has denominations ranging from $50,000 to $10 million.
E) pays discount interest.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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29) A 180-day $3 million CD has a 4.25 percent annual rate quote. If you buy the CD, how much
will you collect in 180 days?
A) $3,047,439
B) $3,045.678
C) $3,062,877
D) $3,063,750
E) $3,127,500
Answer: D
Explanation: $3 million × [1 + (0.0425 × 180/360)]
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
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30) A banker's acceptance is
A) a time draft drawn on the exporter's bank.
B) a method to help importers evaluate the creditworthiness of exporters.
C) a liability of the importer and the importer's bank.
D) an add-on instrument.
E) for greater than one year maturity.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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Answer: C
Difficulty: 1 Easy
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32) In dollars outstanding in 2016, the largest money market security was
A) commercial paper.
B) banker's acceptances.
C) T-bills.
D) Fed funds and repos.
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
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33) You buy a $10,000 par Treasury bill at $9,575 and sell it 60 days later for $9,675. What was
your EAR?
A) 4.44 percent
B) 6.29 percent
C) 6.35 percent
D) 6.52 percent
E) 6.67 percent
Answer: D
Explanation: (9,675/9,575)(365/60) − 1 = .06524 = 6.52%
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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34) LIBOR is generally ________ the Fed funds rate because foreign bank deposits are generally
________ than domestic bank deposits.
A) greater than; less risky
B) less than; more risky
C) the same as; equally risk
D) greater than; more risky
E) less than; less risky
Answer: D
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: International Aspects of Money Markets
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-05 Examine the extent to which foreign investors participate in U.S. money
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35) A U.S. exporter sells $150,000 of furniture to a Latin American importer. The exporter
requires the importer to obtain a letter of credit. When the bank accepts the draft, the exporter
discounts the 120-day note at a 5.25 percent discount. What is the exporter's true effective annual
financing cost?
A) 5.52 percent
B) 5.42 percent
C) 5.34 percent
D) 5.29 percent
E) 5.25 percent
Answer: A
Explanation: 150,000 × [1 − (0.0525 × 120/360)] = 147,375; (150,000/147,375) 365/120 − 1 =
5.52%
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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36) A Chinese exporter sells $200,000 of toys to a French importer. The Chinese exporter
requires the French importer to obtain a letter of credit. When the bank accepts the draft, the
exporter discounts the 90-day note at a 4 percent discount. What is the exporter's true effective
annual financing cost?
A) 4.00 percent
B) 4.04 percent
C) 4.10 percent
D) 4.16 percent
E) 4.22 percent
Answer: D
Explanation: 200,000 × [1 − (0.04 × 90/360)] = 198,000; (200,000/198,000) 365/90 − 1 = 4.16%
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
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37) If a $10,000 par T-bill has a 3.75 percent discount quote and a 90-day maturity, what is the
price of the T-bill to the nearest dollar?
A) $9,625.
B) $9,906.
C) $9,908.
D) $9,627.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: B
Explanation: 10,000 × [1 − (0.0375 × 90/360)] = 9,906
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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38) A 90-day T-bill is selling for $9,900. The par is $10,000. The effective annual return on the
T-bill is (watch your rounding)
A) 4.00 percent.
B) 4.16 percent.
C) 4.10 percent.
D) 4.04 percent.
E) 4.21 percent.
Answer: B
Explanation: (10,000/9,900)(365/90) − 1
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
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39) Suppose that $10 million face value commercial paper with a 270-day maturity is selling for
$9.55 million. What is the BEY on the paper?
A) 4.71 percent
B) 6.42 percent
C) 6.37 percent
D) 6.28 percent
E) 4.50 percent
Answer: C
Explanation: ((10 million/9.55 million) − 1) × (365/270)
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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40) A $2 million jumbo CD is paying a quoted 3.55 percent interest rate on 180-day maturity
CDs. How much money will you have at maturity if you invest in the CD?
A) $2,000,000
B) $2,035,014
C) $2,035,500
D) $2,071,000
E) $2,088,400
Answer: C
Explanation: 2,000,000 × [1 + (0.0355 × 180/360)]
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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41) From 1990 to 2016, which one of the following money market securities actually declined in
terms of dollar amount outstanding?
A) Commercial paper
B) Treasury bills
C) Federal funds and repos
D) Negotiable CDs
E) Banker's acceptances
Answer: E
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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42) A 50-day maturity money market security has a bond equivalent yield of 3.60 percent. The
security's EAR is
A) 3.69 percent.
B) 3.61 percent.
C) 3.55 percent.
D) 3.87 percent.
E) 3.66 percent.
Answer: E
Explanation: EAR = (1 + (0.0360/(365/50))) 365/50 − 1 = 3.66%
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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Answer: B
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-03 Examine the process used to issue Treasury securities.
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44) If your firm enters into an overnight reverse repurchase agreement, your firm is
A) borrowing Fed funds temporarily.
B) selling a security now while agreeing to buy it back tomorrow.
C) giving an unsecured loan to the counterparty.
D) procuring a banker's acceptance.
E) None of these choices are correct.
Answer: E
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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Answer: E
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: International Aspects of Money Markets
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-05 Examine the extent to which foreign investors participate in U.S. money
markets.
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46) Which of the following descriptions does not apply to money market securities?
A) Short-term
B) Low-risk
C) Highly liquid
D) Long maturity
E) High denominations
Answer: D
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Markets
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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47) The most active and important participant in the U.S. money market
A) is the U.S. Treasury.
B) are the large banks.
C) are the investment banks.
D) are the insurance companies.
E) is the Federal Reserve.
Answer: E
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money markets participants
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-04 List the main participants in money markets.
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Answer: C
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money markets participants
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-04 List the main participants in money markets.
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Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Treasury Bills
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-03 Examine the process used to issue Treasury securities.
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50) What is the price of 182-day money market security with face value of $7,000 if the BEY is
3.574%?
A) $6,877.44
B) $6,925.48
C) $6,634.47
D) $6,725.36
E) $6,452.39
Answer: A
Explanation: (7,000 − P)/P × 365/182 = 0.03574
(7,000 − P)/P = 0.01782
P = $6,877.44
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Yields on Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Analyze; Apply
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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Answer: The market has developed for institutional investors because institutional investors
have large enough quantities of money to make it costly for them to not invest their excess funds.
For most individual investors, the dollars lost by not keeping fully invested in interest-bearing
assets is very minimal.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Markets
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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52) Given the functions of the money markets, why is it necessary for money market securities to
have a maturity of one year or less and low default risk?
Answer: Because these markets are designed to provide safe investments with little or no
chance of principal loss. If you could lose principal, you would be very unlikely to invest funds
that are shortly needed. Low default risk implies that the promised cash flows will in all
likelihood be paid in full and on time. The short maturity ensures that the value of these
securities will be relatively insensitive to interest rate changes and, also, there is not much time
for the issuer's condition to change—this also limits the risk.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Markets
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-01 Define money markets.
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53) What is the difference between a discriminating auction and a single price auction? How is
the final price determined in a single price auction? Why did the Treasury switch to a single
price auction?
Answer: In a discriminating price auction, different bidders pay a different price for the same
securities. In a single price auction, all successful bidders pay the same price, regardless of the
specific price they bid. The final price is set as the lowest price of the competitive bids accepted.
The Treasury switched to single price auctions because they found that in single price auctions,
there tended to be more winning bidders and that bidders bid more aggressively (made higher
bids), resulting in overall higher bid prices and revenues for the government.
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-03 Examine the process used to issue Treasury securities.
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54) A government securities dealer needs to make a 7 percent pretax annual return on $10
million of capital employed to make it worthwhile to make a market in T-bills. If the bid
discount on $10,000 face value 90-day T-bills is 3.50 percent, and the dealer can expect to do
5,200 round trip deals today, what must the ask discount be? Hint: A round trip is a buy and a
sell transaction.
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55) How does a repo differ from a Fed funds transaction? How do their rates compare?
Answer: A repo is basically a collateralized loan, whereas Fed funds are uncollateralized. The
repo rate will typically be slightly below the equivalent maturity Fed funds rate because the
repos are collateralized. Repos are likely to be for longer maturity than Fed funds, although both
may involve transfers of deposits held at the Fed. Fed funds loans can be arranged more quickly
because no change of title of securities is involved.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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56) As a corporate treasurer who is unsure how soon funds will be needed, which type of money
market investment might you prefer? Explain the trade-offs. Would your answer differ if you had
a definite time period during which you would not need the money? Explain.
Answer: If liquidity is a primary concern, then T-bills may be the best choice because they are
by far the most liquid. They also typically offer the lowest rate of return because of government
backing and high liquidity. If you knew for certain (or with high probability) that the funds will
not be needed, then term repos, commercial paper, or banker's acceptances may offer better rates
of return.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Money Market Securities; Money Market Participants
Bloom's: Understand; Analyze; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.; 05-04 List the main
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57) A corporate treasurer is looking to invest about $4 million for 60 days. Commercial paper
rates are a 3.65 percent discount and CD rates are 3.66 percent. Comparing the bond equivalent
yields over a 365-day year, which is the best alternative? What is the opportunity cost of leaving
the funds idle? (Watch your rounding.)
58) How does a banker's acceptance (BA) help create more international trade?
Answer: Importers do not wish to pay until they receive the goods and exporters do not wish to
ship until they receive payment. The creation of a BA allows the exporter to ship prior to receipt
of payment, while substituting the creditworthiness of a large international bank for the unknown
creditworthiness of the importer.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Money Market Securities
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.
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60) One-hundred-eighty-day commercial paper can be bought at a 3.75 percent discount. What
are the bond equivalent yield and the effective annual rate on the commercial paper? Why do
these rates differ?
61) You are a corporate treasurer for Esso Oil. The quoted rate on dollar-denominated euro
commercial paper has just blipped down recently. Your firm can issue $10 million of 180-day
euro commercial paper in the London markets at 3.45 percent. You can also invest the proceeds
in the United States in comparable maturity negotiable dollar-denominated CDs, which are
quoting 3.95 percent. Ignoring any transactions costs, how much money, if any, can Esso make
by borrowing in the euro markets and investing in the United States? Is this a good deal or not?
Should you expect it to last? Explain.
Answer: Initial proceeds from issuing euro commercial paper (CP) = $10 million × [1 −
(0.0345 × 180/360)] = $9,827,500; invest the proceeds of $9,827,500 in 180-day CDs and you
will wind up with $9,827,500 × [1 + (0.0395 × 180/360)] = $10,021,593.
Repay the $10,000,000 owed on the CP and Esso will clear $21,593.
If the CDs are not very risky, then this represents an arbitrage opportunity for Esso; because they
are not using their own money, the rate of return is infinite. Since this is an arbitrage strategy, we
would not expect this big a difference in the rates to persist. (Exxon constructed a similar
arbitrage several years ago using euro commercial paper and T-bills.)
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Topic: Money Market Securities; International Aspects of Money Markets; Money Market
Participants
Bloom's: Analyze; Evaluate
AACSB: Reflective Thinking; Analytical Thinking
Learning Goal: 05-02 Identify the major types of money market securities.; 05-05 Examine the
extent to which foreign investors participate in U.S. money markets.; 05-04 List the main
participants in money markets.
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Which of the following would be D) The investment will be for a long period of time.
LEAST likely to lower the interest
rate that a bank offers a borrower?
1.94%
A bank pays interest quarterly with
an EAR of 8%. What is the periodic
First convert the EAR to APR with quarterly compounding,
interest rate applicable per
which equals 7.77%; now divide this by 4 to get the
quarter?
periodic interest rate = 1.94%.
A) an EAR of 6.7%
B) an EAR of 7.72%
C) an EAR of 8.3%
D) an EAR of 8.5%
Which of the following best A) the quoted interest rate which considered with the
describes the annual percentage compounding period gives the effective interest rate
rate?
A graphic designer needs a laptop C) Leasing costs $399 more than buying
for audio/video editing, and notices
that they can elect to pay $2900 for Using a periodic rate of 7/12% per month, calculate the
a Dell XPS laptop, or lease from the present value (PV) of an annuity of $79 for 48 months; then
manufacturer for monthly payments subtract $2900 to calculate the advantage of leasing.
of $79 each for four years. The
designer can borrow at an interest
rate of 7% APR compounded
monthly. What is the cost of leasing
the laptop over buying it outright?
Which of the following accounts B) one that pays 1.0% per month
has the highest EAR?
Calculate the EAR for each choice and pick the highest: A
A) one that pays 6.1% every six = 12.57%; B=12.68%; C = 12.6%; D = 12.55%.
months
B) one that pays 1.0% per month
C) one that pays 12.6% per year
D) one that pays 3% every three
months
A) $354,223
B) $364,309
C) $365,322
D) $400,000
Investment B:
Rate of Return: 5.6%
Compounding: Semiannually
Investment C:
Rate of Return: 5.5%
Compounding: Monthly
Investment D:
Rate of Return: 5.5%
Compounding: Weekly
Emma runs a small factory that D) Buy, since the present value (PV) of the lease is $32,108
needs a vacuum oven for brazing more than the cost of the oven.
small fittings. She can purchase the
model she needs for $180,000 up Calculate PV lease payments = $212,108; subtract $180,000
front, or she can lease it for five to get $32,108.
years for $4200 per month. She can
borrow at 7% APR, compounded
monthly. Assuming that the oven
will be used for five years, should
she purchase the oven or should
she lease it?
A) 8.30%
B) 8.33%
C) 8.00%
D) 8.24%
A) 10.52%
B) 10.25%
C) 10.38%
D) 10.00%
A) 4.00%
B) 4.10%
C) 4.08%
D) 4.06%
Finance 320 Exam 2 Chapters 5,6,7,8,9
Which alternative offers you the D) Investment D
highest effective rate of return?
EAR (A) = (1 + APR / k)k - 1 = (1 + 0.0625 / 1)1 - 1 = 0.0625 or
Investment A: 6.250%
Rate: 6.25%
Compounded: Annually EAR (B) = (1 + APR / k)k - 1 = (1 + 0.0610 / 365)365 - 1 =
0.06289 or 6.289%
Investment: B
Rate:6.10% EAR (C) = (1 + APR / k)k - 1 = (1 + 0.06125 / 4)4 - 1 = 0.06267 or
Compounded: Daily 6.267%
Investment: D
Rate: 6.120%
Compounded: Monthly
Investment: D
Rate: 6.120%
Compounded: Monthly
Investment: D
Rate: 6.120%
Compounded: Monthly
Investment: D
Rate: 6.120%
Compounded: Monthly
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Terms in this set (50)
2. At equilibrium, a security's f
required rate of return will be less
than its expected rate of return.
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7. All else equal, the holder of a t
fairly priced premium bond must
expect a capital loss over the
holding period.
20. Duration is b
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21. Which of the following bond d
terms are generally positively
related to bond price volatility?
I. Coupon rate
II. Maturity
III. YTM
IV. Payment frequency
A. II and IV only
D. II only
E. current yield.
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23. A security has an expected c
return less than its required return.
This security is
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25. You would want to purchase a c
security if P ____________ PV or E(r)
____________ r.
A. ≥; ≤
B. ≥; ≥
C. ≤; ≥
D. ≤; ≤
A. $0.00
B. Overpriced by $14.18
C. Underpriced by $14.18
D. Overpriced by $9.32
E. Underpriced by $9.32
PV = 100 × PVIFA [9%, 10 yrs.] + 1,000
× PVIF (9%, 10 yrs.) = $1,064.18
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27. A 12-year annual payment d
corporate bond has a market price
of $925. It pays annual interest of
$60 and its required rate of return is
7 percent. By how much is the bond
mispriced?
A. $0.00
B. Overpriced by $7.29
C. Underpriced by $7.29
D. Overpriced by $4.43
E. Underpriced by $4.43
FPV = 60 × PVIFA [7%, 12 yrs.] + 1,000
× PVIF (7%, 12 yrs.) = $920.57
A. $1,062.81
B. $1,062.10
C. $1,053.45
D. $1,052.99
E. $1,049.49
Price = 35.00 × PVIFA (3%, 16) + 1,000
× PVIF (3%, 16)
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29. A 15-year corporate bond pays a
$40 interest every six months. What
is the bond's price if the bond's
promised YTM is 5.5 percent?
A. $1,261.32
B. $1,253.12
C. $1,250.94
D. $1,263.45
E. $1,264.79
Using P/Y2 for semiannual; FV
$1,000; PMT $40; N 15 years; and I/Y
5.5 percent. Solve bond price (PV)
= $1,253.12.
A. $924.18.
B. $1,000.00.
C. $879.68.
D. $1,124.83.
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31. A 10-year annual payment d
corporate coupon bond has an
expected return of 11 percent and a
required return of 10 percent. The
bond's market price is
E. $1,000.00.
A. 13.49 percent.
B. 5.80 percent.
C. 7.00 percent.
D. 1.69 percent.
E. 4.25 percent.
$1,075 = 70 × PVIFA (E(r)%, 8) + 1,000
× PVIF (E(r)%, 8), trial and error or
calculator
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33. A six-year annual payment d
corporate bond has a required
return of 9.5 percent and an 8
percent coupon. Its market value is
$20 over its PV. What is the bond's
E(r)?
A. 8.00 percent
B. 10.21 percent
C. 9.98 percent
D. 9.03 percent
E. 3.53 percent
PV = 933.70 = 80 × PVIFA (9.5%, 6
yrs.) + 1,000 × PVIF (9.5%, 6 yrs.);
(933.70 + 20) = 80 × PVIFA (E(r), 6
yrs.) + 1,000 × PVIF (E(r), 6 yrs.), trial
and error or calculator
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34. Corporate Bond A returns 5 d
percent of its cost in PV terms in
each of the first five years and 75
percent of its value in the sixth year.
Corporate Bond B returns 8
percent of its cost in PV terms in
each of the first five years and 60
percent of its cost in the sixth year.
If A and B have the same required
return, which of the following is/are
true?
A. III only
D. II and IV only
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35. A corporate bond returns 12 e
percent of its cost (in PV terms) in
the first year, 11 percent in the
second year, 10 percent in the third
year and the remainder in the fourth
year. What is the bond's duration in
years?
A. 3.68 years
B. 2.50 years
C. 4.00 years
D. 3.75 years
E. 3.32 years
3.32 = (12% 1) + (11% 2) + (10% 3) +
(67% 4)
A. 10.00 years
B. 8.39 years
C. 6.45 years
D. 5.20 years
E. 7.35 years
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37. An annual payment bond with a a
$1,000 par has a 5 percent quoted
coupon rate, a 6 percent promised
YTM, and six years to maturity.
What is the bond's duration?
A. 5.31 years
B. 5.25 years
C. 4.76 years
D. 4.16 years
E. 3.19 years
Σ[(t*CFt/(1.06)t)]/$950.83
A. N.
B. 0.
D. N!/N2.
A. 8.89 percent
B. 8.51 percent
C. 5.84 percent
D. 4.44 percent
E. 2.96 percent
Use a financial calculator to solve
for IRR as follows: CFO = -$45, CO1
= $2, FO1 = 1, CO2 = $2, FO2 = 1, FO3
= $47, FO3 = 1 Compute for IRR =
5.82%.
A. 3.05
B. 2.97
C. 3.22
D. 3.71
E. 4.00
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42. A decrease in interest rates will b
A. equal to 12 years.
C. one year.
D. N years.
E. N/(N-1) years.
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45. An annual payment bond has a e
9 percent required return. Interest
rates are projected to fall 25 basis
points. The bond's duration is 12
years. What is the predicted price
change?
A. -2.75 percent
B. 33.33 percent
C. 1.95 percent
D. -1.95 percent
E. 2.75 percent
-12 × (-0.0025/1.09)
A. $1,042.33
B. $995.99
C. $1,054.01
D. $987.44
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47. A bond that pays interest d
semiannually has a 6 percent
promised yield and a price of
$1,045. Annual interest rates are
now projected to increase 50 basis
points. The bond's duration is five
years. What is the predicted new
bond price after the interest rate
change? (Watch your rounding.)
A. $1,020.35
B. $1,069.65
C. $1,070.36
D. $1,019.64
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49. The duration of a 180-day T-Bill a
is (in years)
A. 0.493.
B. 0.246.
C. 1.
D. 0.
E. indeterminate.
180/365
A. overpredicts; overpredicts
B. overpredicts; underpredicts
C. underpredicts; overpredicts
D. underpredicts; underpredicts
For the purposes for which they are used, money market
securities should have which of the following
characteristics?
B. II and IV
C. III and IV
D. I and II
I. Large denomination
II. Maturity greater than one year
III. Low default risk
IV. Contractually determined cash flows
D. II and IV
A. banker's acceptance.
B. certificate of deposit.
fed funds loan
C. Fed funds loan.
E. Eurodollar deposit.
A. commercial paper.
C. a repurchase agreement.
D. a negotiable CD.
E. a banker's acceptance.
C. repurchase agreement.
D. negotiable CD.
E. banker's acceptance.
$9867.50; $9862.5
A. $9,869.23; $9864.36
D. $9,862.50; $9,867.50
D. as an EAR.
-the discount yield is the return per II. a 360-day year is used on the discount yield and the
dollar of face value and the BEY is BEY uses 365 days.
a return per dollar originally III. the discount yield is calculated without compounding,
and
C. I and II only
A. EAR
single payment yield
B. APR
C. single-payment yield
D. discount yield
E. BEY
strongly affected by the current B. strongly affected by the current Fed funds rate at the
Fed funds rate at the time of the time of the repo.
repo and determined at the time of
the repo. C. determined at the time of the repo.
25. A negotiable CD
B. is a registered instrument.
is a bank issued time deposit
A. $3,047,439
$3,063,750
B. $3,045.678
$3 million × [1 + (0.0425 × 180/360)]
C. $3,062,877
D. $3,063,750
E. $3,127,500
D. an add-on instrument.
A. commercial paper.
B. banker's acceptances.
t bills
C. T-bills.
D. Fed funds.
E. repurchase agreements.
A. commercial paper.
t bills
B. banker's acceptances.
C. T-bills.
30. You buy a $10,000 par Treasury bill at $9,575 and sell it
60 days later for $9,675. What was your EAR?
A. 4.44 percent
C. 6.35 percent
D. 6.52 percent
E. 6.67 percent
B. 5.42 percent
C. 5.34 percent
D. 5.29 percent
E. 5.25 percent
4.16
A. 4.00 percent
200,000 [1-(0.04 90/360)] = 198,000;
(200,000/198,000)365/90 -1 = 4.16%
B. 4.04 percent
C. 4.10 percent
D. 4.16 percent
E. 4.22 percent
A. $9,625
$9906
B. $9,906
D. $9,627
A. 4.00 percent.
4.16 percent
B. 4.16 percent.
(10,000/9,900)(365/90) - 1
C. 4.10 percent.
D. 4.04 percent.
E. 4.21 percent.
A. 4.71 percent
6.37 percent
B. 6.42 percent
C. 6.37 percent
D. 6.28 percent
E. 4.50 percent
A. $2,000,000
$2,035,500
B. $2,035,014
2,000,000 [1 + (0.0355180/360)]
C. $2,035,500
D. $2,071,000
E. $2,088,400
A. commercial paper
bankers acceptances
B. treasury bills
D. negotiable CDs
E. banker's acceptances
A. 3.69 percent.
3.66 percent
B. 3.61 percent.
EAR = (1 + (0.0360/(365/50)))365/50
- 1 = 3.66%
C. 3.55 percent
D. 3.87 percent.
E. 3.66 percent.
A. competitive bidders.
E. no group of bidders.
none of the options B. selling a security now while agreeing to buy it back
tomorrow.
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Terms in this set (35)
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A repo is in essence a C
collateralized
Multiple Choice
banker's acceptance.
certificate of deposit.
Fed funds loan.
commercial paper loan.
Eurodollar deposit.
FIN CH5 SG
A dealer is quoting a $10,000 face C
180-day T-bill quoted at 2.75 bid,
2.65 ask. You could buy this bill at
______________ or sell it at _______________.
Multiple Choice
$9,869.23; $9,864.36.
$9,864.36; $9,869.23.
$9,867.50; $9,862.50.
$9,862.50; $9,867.50.
None of these choices are correct.
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The following formula is used to C
calculate the _____________ of a money
market investment.
PF−P0P0×360n
Multiple Choice
EAR
APR
single-payment yield
discount yield
BEY
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A negotiable CD C
Multiple Choice
is a bank-issued transactions
deposit.
is a registered instrument.
is a bank-issued time deposit.
has denominations ranging from
$50,000 to $10 million.
pays discount interest.
A banker's acceptance is C
Multiple Choice
a time draft drawn on the exporter's
bank.
a method to help importers
evaluate the creditworthiness of
exporters.
a liability of the importer and the
importer's bank.
an add-on instrument.
for greater than one year maturity.
FIN CH5 SG
The most liquid of the money C
market securities are
Multiple Choice
commercial paper.
banker's acceptances.
T-bills.
Fed funds.
repurchase agreements.
FIN CH5 SG
A U.S. exporter sells $150,000 of A
furniture to a Latin American
importer. The exporter requires the
importer to obtain a letter of credit.
When the bank accepts the draft,
the exporter discounts the 120-day
note at a 5.25 percent discount.
What is the exporter's true effective
annual financing cost?
Multiple Choice
5.52 percent
5.42 percent
5.34 percent
5.29 percent
5.25 percent
FIN CH5 SG
A 90-day T-bill is selling for $9,900. B
The par is $10,000. The effective
annual return on the T-bill is (watch
your rounding)
Multiple Choice
4.00 percent.
4.16 percent.
4.10 percent.
4.04 percent.
4.21 percent.
FIN CH5 SG
A 50-day maturity money market E
security has a bond equivalent
yield of 3.60 percent. The security's
EAR is
Multiple Choice
3.69 percent.
3.61 percent.
3.55 percent.
3.87 percent.
3.66 percent.
FIN CH5 SG
Which of the following descriptions D
does not apply to money market
securities?
Multiple Choice
Short-term
Low-risk
Highly liquid
Long maturity
High denominations
FIN CH5 SG
What is the price of 182-day money A
market security with face value of
$7,000 if the BEY is 3.574%?
Multiple Choice
$6,877.44
$6,925.48
$6,634.47
$6,725.36
$6,452.39